We’re all familiar with the infamous tale of the lawyers who filed a brief full of nonexistent cases—courtesy of ChatGPT, the AI tool that made up aka “hallucinated” the fake citations. In the end, Judge Kevin Castel (S.D.N.Y.) sanctioned t…

The legal profession’s ChatGPT reckoning has escalated beyond small-firm missteps. In a striking example of how AI can lead lawyers into a whole lot of mess, attorneys at Morgan & Morgan—the nation’s largest injury law firm with over 1,000 …

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Lawyers representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Walmart (WMT.N), opens new tab over alleged injuries from a defective hoverboard toy said on Monday that they inadvertently included made-up cases generated by artifici…

Updated: Lawyers from plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan have been sanctioned for a motion that cited eight nonexistent cases, at least some of which were apparently generated by artificial intelligence.

U.S. District Judge Kelly H. Rankin…

WYOMING, USA — Lawyers representing a Wyoming family in a lawsuit against Walmart and Jetson Electric Bikes admitted to using artificial intelligence to generate a pretrial motion after a federal judge said nearly all the cases they cited w…

Morgan & Morgan---which bills itself as "America's largest injury law firm" that fights "for the people"---learned the hard way this month that even one lawyer blindly citing AI-hallucinated case law can risk sullying the reputation of an e…

Feb 25 (Reuters) - Three lawyers suing Walmart in a personal injury lawsuit must pay fines totaling $5,000 for citing fake cases generated by artificial intelligence in a court filing, a federal judge ruled.

The lawyers, including two from …

From Judge Kelly Rankin's Order on Sanctions and Other Disciplinary Action filed yesterday in Wadsworth v. Walmart Inc. (D. Wyo.):

Legal research has improved over time, going from the use of digest books to online databases like Lexis and…

You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan — the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount — were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases ge…

If you have any doubts about both the power and pitfalls of artificial intelligence, I have a cringe-inducing court case for you.

It involves the well-known Morgan & Morgan law firm filing a legal brief that cited nine cases as precedent th…

A judge has kicked a lawyer off a case after he submitted a brief that contained false case citations fabricated by artificial intelligence.

U.S. District Judge Kelly H. Rankin also slapped a $3,000 fine on the lawyer, Rudwin Ayala, for vio…