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June 2, 2011 - A Utah attorney has been sanctioned by an appeals court for citing false cases generated by ChatGPT in court documents, the Guardian reported on June 31st. This week, the Utah Court of Appeals announced that it was sanctioning Richard Bednar for citing untrue legal cases in the briefs he filed. Court documents show that Bednar, along with Utah attorney Douglas Durbano, filed the petition for interlocutory appeal on behalf of his client. In reviewing the brief, which was drafted by a legal assistant, defense attorneys found multiple citations to non-existent case law. "Portions of this brief...

May 14 news, according to foreign media The Verge reported today, a judge in California, Michael Wilner harshly criticized two law firms in the case of undisclosed use of AI to submit documents. This comes after he received a supplemental document containing "numerous false, inaccurate and misleading" legal citations. According to a ruling filed last week, Judge Michael Wilner fined the law firms $31,000 (note: the current exchange rate is about 223,000 yuan) and said, "No competent attorney should have...

Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan & Morgan, a leading U.S. personal injury law firm, sent an urgent email to more than 1,000 of its attorneys warning them that AI is capable of fabricating false jurisprudential information and that they could be fired if they use fictionalized content in court documents, Reuters reported today. This comes after a federal judge in Wyoming threatened to sanction two of the firm's attorneys for citing false case law in a lawsuit against Walmart. One of the attorneys admitted in court documents that he used a "creation...

A Colorado lawyer has been suspended for a year for using an AI chatbot to draft legal documents. Zachariah Crabill reportedly used an AI platform called ChatGPT in a civil case in May, citing precedents he found through the platform. However, the platform generated erroneous and fictitious cases. Crabill allegedly did not report the existence of the erroneous case to the court after filing the motion, nor did he withdraw the motion. Image source note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is licensed to Mi…