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Judge Cancels Trial Because Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:31 pm
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Lawyers just can't stop being caught using AI chatbots, polluting their filings with hallucinated citations that infuriate judges when they're caught. Even prestigious law firms are being humiliated, with some perpetrators getting slapped with fines and facing discipline from the Bar.
In a particularly egregious reminder of just how widespread the problem has become, a United States district judge in Mississippi found out that lawyers from both sides of a recent case had used AI. As 404 Media reports, Northern District of Mississippi judge Sharion Aycock berated everybody involved in a sanctions order, ultimately fining them, canceling the trial, and barring half of them from appearing in the district's court for two years.
This post was edited on 6/11/26 at 6:52 pm
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Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:33 pm to UFFan
Better get used to it
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:37 pm to theunknownknight
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Better get used to it
Last summers LAPSELS ethics webinar was in the use of AI. So industries are trying to address the issue. Zits here to stay but how we use it is key.
AI is a tool in our bag but it’s shouldn’t be a crutch.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:37 pm to UFFan
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"Neither of them verified the legal authority output by AI before filing their briefs," she wrote, adding that "each of the attorneys expressed embarrassment and apologized to the Court."
This is the bad part. They didn't check the results.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:39 pm to UFFan
I didn’t know there was a problem with lawyers using AI. AI is a fact of life in the modern world.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:39 pm to UFFan
Thanks for the brief summary.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:41 pm to Spankum
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I didn’t know there was a problem with lawyers using AI. AI is a fact of life in the modern world.
Hallucinations are the problem
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:41 pm to UFFan
Crazy because it’s not that hard to create an agent that enforces factual information over helpful information.
You can get almost all the frontier models to not output a statement that can’t be proven factual and provide the sources by which it decided a statement was factual.
This is extreme laziness on the lawyers.
You can get almost all the frontier models to not output a statement that can’t be proven factual and provide the sources by which it decided a statement was factual.
This is extreme laziness on the lawyers.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:42 pm to UFFan
It’s going be the death of their profession
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:42 pm to UFFan
The problem with AI for legal research is that it’s smart enough to give you the answer or argument it can tell you want to make based on the question or prompt. Facts and actual citations be damned.
That’s not the purpose of legal research. Legal research is to determine if the law supports the argument you want to make with the facts you have. And then you put that in writing.
That’s not the purpose of legal research. Legal research is to determine if the law supports the argument you want to make with the facts you have. And then you put that in writing.
This post was edited on 6/11/26 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:42 pm to UFFan
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Judge Cancels Trial Because Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI
OTers downvote because the OP posted a blind link with no quoted summary.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:51 pm to UFFan
My daughter is a respected graduate of the Price School of Business at OU. Each of the last two years they have flown her to Norman, where she sits as a judge to grade the finals projects, which is writing a working business plan for a proposed business and make a pitch for funding by angel investors or a business group. She was cum laude and won this competition, which got her started in commercial real-estate as a financial analyst in multi-family property management, purchase and construction.
This just past spring semester she failed three teams. All three teams were caught using AI to perform the work and when queried in front of the professors and dean, the students could not answer the most basic questions to explain their research and presentation.
This just past spring semester she failed three teams. All three teams were caught using AI to perform the work and when queried in front of the professors and dean, the students could not answer the most basic questions to explain their research and presentation.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:52 pm to CaptainsWafer
I added the summary now for the people who are so obsessed with that.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:57 pm to UFFan
Who needs LexisNexis when you have ChatGPT?
Posted on 6/11/26 at 6:59 pm to Spankum
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I didn’t know there was a problem with lawyers using AI. AI is a fact of life in the modern world.
Yea - it's a major issue actually. There have been several instances of attorneys filing briefs with references to case law that doesn't even exist because AI completely made it up.
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Posted on 6/11/26 at 7:02 pm to UFFan
Hell, judges are using AI to write opinions and orders.
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Posted on 6/11/26 at 7:09 pm to UFFan
Isn't the future great. Can we just fast forward to the part where our Ai robot overlords eliminate us. The slow death is taking too long.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 7:13 pm to Spankum
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I didn’t know there was a problem with lawyers using AI. AI is a fact of life in the modern world.
AI can’t be trusted for major things.
Posted on 6/11/26 at 7:13 pm to Sus-Scrofa
You can point AI to be factual and back up it's information. I AI cite scholarly sources APA style. Now just because something is a peer reviewed article doesn't mean the data is solid or the conclusions are correct, but what I am looking for most time is hard data to make a decision or develop a process.
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