{"id":14150,"date":"2026-06-15T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:43:03","slug":"courts-cracking-down-on-error-strewn-ai-assisted-legal-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=14150","title":{"rendered":"Courts cracking down on error-strewn AI-assisted legal briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p>When a US judge found fabricated quotes in a lawyer\u2019s brief earlier this year, the attorney admitted he had used Claude, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to write the document.<\/p>\n<p>That got him a fine and a mandatory course on how to use AI properly.<\/p>\n<p>But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI \u201challucinations\u201d muddying the legal waters. Now some courts are trying to stem the tide by cracking down on the lawyers concerned.<\/p>\n<p>It was judge Jerry Edwards Jr., of Louisiana district court, who sanctioned the lawyer in that recent US case last month. He found the AI-generated hallucinations while reviewing a motion to block evidence from being admitted in a personal injury case.<\/p>\n<p>He caught seven quotes attributed to previous court rulings that either did not appear in the original decisions or had been misrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>The hapless lawyer said a law clerk had caught other fabricated quotes in a first draft. Instead of learning from his mistake however, the attorney simply asked Claude to correct the errors \u2014 then submitted the brief without reviewing it.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney had believed the AI\u2019s output was accurate, said the court\u2019s May 18 memorandum order announcing the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIgnorance of the risks of AI usage is no longer an excuse,\u201d the judge wrote, fining the lawyer $1,000 and sending him on a three-hour course on AI-assisted legal practice.<\/p>\n<p>But he at least granted part of the motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Hundreds of cases \u2013<\/p>\n<p>AI-generated blunders do not necessarily destroy a lawyer\u2019s case, French lawyer Damien\u00a0Charlotin told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lawyer\u2019s credibility is in tatters \u2014 but there are cases where lawyers still win, despite the hallucinations, because they were right on the merits,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>But there are other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Linda Kevins of New York State\u2019s Supreme Court warned in a January ruling that such blunders wasted the time and money of both the opposing party and the court.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she said, they were \u201cpotentially harming the reputation of judges and courts whose names are falsely invoked as authors of the bogus opinions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotin has been compiling a database of court documents containing AI hallucinations since April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>So far, he has 1,600 examples from 35 countries: from fabricated quotes and cases, to plagiarised arguments or references and out-of-date advice.<\/p>\n<p>Since it is a crowd-sourced database it cannot count as the definitive list, but by far the most cases \u2014 1,116 of them \u2014 come from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Next comes Canada, with 173 cases, Australia with 74, then Britain with 59.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Do your job!\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the legal field, AI is used for research, finding precedents, and sometimes generating text,\u201d said Charlotin.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers and litigants representing themselves who submitted documents containing AI hallucinations were most often using mainstream chatbots, particularly OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>The data suggests that specialised legal AI tools, used by many law firms, are more reliable \u2014 but they are still not immune from hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI thrives on recognising patterns. And legal citations and arguments are always formatted in the same way, so it\u2019s easy for an AI to follow a template and generate fake ones,\u201d said Charlotin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause no lawyer knows all past cases, when a chatbot outputs something that looks like a law citation, the only way to know it actually exists is to check it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>But some lawyers are still not doing that, said judge Scott Schlegel, who serves on the American Bar Association\u2019s Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Too many attorneys still do not understand the technology\u2019s limits, he told AFP. Time pressures are compounding the problem, Charlotin\u2019s database shows.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s no excuse, Schlegel told AFP in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, I just can\u2019t understand how we still have the issue. Just do your job and read the cases. Come on!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Sanctions \u2013<\/p>\n<p>According to Charlotin\u2019s data, hallucinations in court filings have increased eightfold in the past year compared with the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>He is testing his own AI-powered tool to help lawyers spot hallucinations before they are submitted to courts. But he cannot guarantee it will not itself make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still up to the lawyers to adapt their verification process to the issues at hand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Databases such as Court Listener\u00a0have a growing list of rulings on AI-generated calamities in the US courts. And in several such cases, judges are handing out more than just reprimands.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, federal judge Sharion Aycock sanctioned lawyers on both sides of a civil case in Mississippi after they submitted AI-assisted legal briefs that cited non-existent cases.<\/p>\n<p>Four lawyers were fined $8,000 in total, and two of them were barred from appearing in the Mississippi Northern District Court\u00a0for two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example of the risk associated with serving as a rubberstamp when acting as local counsel\u201d, she wrote in the sanctions order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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