Lawyers Are Getting in Trouble for AI-Generated Filings
A federal judge reprimanded four lawyers, two on each side, in a Mississippi case about fees for a solar development project.
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Legal teams that are increasingly relying on AI tools to help generate some of their legal work are doing so at their peril. In a recent Mississippi case in federal court, lawyers on both sides of a dispute over a solar project's fees were disciplined for using AI software that hallucinated cases or included cases in filings that weren't part of state law.
The case, Withers v. City of Aberdeen, involved a dispute between a lawyer, Tom Withers III, and the city of Aberdeen, Miss. Withers claimed the city owed him fees involving a solar development project. He wasn't one of the lawyers reprimanded, but his legal team was, as were lawyers representing the city, when a judge determined that four of them -- two of...
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