
David Shulman
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David Shulman
@DavidShulmanFL
Trusts and Estates attorney, Fort Lauderdale. Original account long deleted. I'm back for a bit





More lawyers misusing AI: 7th Circuit weighs in. Lawyer submitted appellate brief "two dozen fabricated quotations, seven cases wrongly identified ..., erroneous legal propositions, and assertions of fact flatly contradicted by the record." The contract lawyer who wrote the brief admitted to using ChatGPT. Counsel admitted he did not review the brief before filing. He told the court, "I assume when an attorney ... writes briefs that they're following the rules." Court says by signing his name to briefs without reviewing them was "egregious misjudgment" and is "inimical to the administration of justice." He will pay $5,000 in sanctions. The contract lawyer said she used ChatGPT to "grammar check" the brief but not "to perform any legal research." She said ChatGPT hallucinated facts and caselaw and inserted them into the brief, but she "in no way instructed or prompted ChatGPT to do any of that." The court had doubts: "It is unlikely that such pervasive errors would arise through a grammar check." Court refers the matter to the Illinois disciplinary commission. "There is little doubt that litigants and courts will develop sound and workable practices governing AI usage in due time, but that point has not yet arrived."












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