re: Judge Cancels Trial Because Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI

I use AI for internal work product and it’s mind-blowing and fantastic. I’ll even use it to draft some correspondence that isn’t going to a court.

I can’t bring myself to use it for pleadings yet.

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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.

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When I teach tax research, I tell our people you need to find support for your position, not support for what or the client want to do.

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One from Houston - one from Baton Rouge

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At the hearing, Wilson explained that she is a solo practitioner licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana. She owns the Wilson Law Firm, LLC, which has no policy in place pertaining to AI use

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I'm guessing this is her firm's website

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Trusted Advocacy. Ethical Solutions.
Real Results

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Our mission is to provide ethical, client-centered, and high-quality legal services

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MAY need to work on that

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Wilson explained that she was shocked when the Court issued the show cause order pointing out the hallucinated cases appearing in her filing. In essence, Wilson took the position that she was unaware that AI could produce hallucinated cases and explained that she did not even know what a hallucinated case was. The Court finds that explanation to be insufficient and incredulous.

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IT GETS WORSE

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On this point, the Court is compelled to note that it has serious concerns that Wilson has continued this practice of AI misuse in other cases after she was put on notice of her violations in this case. Again, the show cause hearing in this case was held on January 20, 2026. On April 9, 2026, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Louisiana sanctioned Wilson for submitting two filings containing “nonexistent cases and statutes as a result of what is universally known as ‘AI Hallucinations.’” See In re: Troylond Malon Wise, Debtor, 2026 WL 970390, at *1 (Bankr. W.D. La. Apr. 9, 2026). It follows that, as in this case, Wilson admitted to the Bankruptcy Court that she failed to independently verify AI-generated documents before filing them. See id. Wilson’s tainted filings in that case were respectively filed on March 16 and 18, 2026—two months after the show cause hearing was held before this Court.6 Her continued AI misuse demonstrates an extreme dereliction of professional responsibility on her part. Though this Court cannot consider subsequent conduct that did not occur before it in determination of the appropriate sanction(s) in this case, it finds that at minimum Wilson’s apologies to this Court on January 20, 2026 were not sincere. She failed to conform her conduct despite assuring to this Court that she would.

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Holy shite the AI she was using is $499/mo. I need to get in on that grift

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AI is a fact of life in the modern world.

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Its great for recruiting. Someone who is dumb enough to have their resume obviously written by AI and not checked = round file.

Its amazing how many of those I see, and this is for engineering jobs.

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Holy shite the AI she was using is $499/mo. I need to get in on that grift

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So this lazy bitch used an AI literally called First Draft and still couldn't even read the FAQ...even after be reprimanded by the courts. Not surprised after seeing her picture.

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I didn't even read that much into it.

For $499/mo I'm not even sure what she was getting. This is fricking bonkers.

If I didn't have a big project I'm working on I'd Claude-code an app this weekend to sell to dumbass lawyers

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AI will utterly make up cases, with full citations, that don’t exist. And even when the cases do exist, it’s a dice roll as to whether it gets the holding right, gets the holding backwards, or just makes up an unrelated holding entirely.

Any attorney that doesn’t tear through every citation AI gives at this point is an utter idiot.

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Definitely.

I've seen AI make way too many mistakes.

It shouldn't be anything more than a glorified search engine, where you follow the leads it gives you.

I tried it once for stonk recommendations but the results weren't great when I looked up the companies.

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AI is a tool in our bag but it’s shouldn’t be a crutch.

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agree 100%, from an engineering POV it should mainly be used for quick research or for it to give you the relevant page number in a code book so you can go and actually verify things yourself, it should not be used blindly and trusted blindly. but it is no different than any of the other computer programs we use. Calcs have to be checked and every thing should be checked against ragagep

eventually AI though will be no different than other programs and no different than a calculator. At one time people didnt trust the answers from a calculator either

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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.

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thing is though, most of that is LAPELS protecting the members. Its why they have so many rules to begin with. and some of it is LAPELS being run by guys old as dirt for the most part.


but like you said...AI is a tool in the tool box, experience still matters a ton.

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AI is a tool in our bag but it’s shouldn’t be a crutch.

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This! I feed my own IP in dictation form and have it act as an admin to create drafts for me to review. Always always always review AIs work!!