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Federal Court Suspends Florida Attorney Over Filing Fabricated Cases Hallucinated by AI

Above the Law - Technology

” Based on this, the committee found that Neusom had not only failed to exercise the reasonable due diligence required of an attorney, but that his conduct went “beyond a lack of due diligence as some of his legal authorities were completely fabricated.” District Judge John E.

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AI Judges: Enhancing or Undermining the Justice System?

CaseFox

A survey by Altman Weil found that 62% of law firm leaders believe that technology will replace human lawyers for certain tasks, such as document review and due diligence. The role of judges in the judicial system is to make impartial decisions based on the evidence presented in court.

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

LawSites

As to that last point, the court, in an opinion written by Presiding Judge Kurt S. In reviewing the memoranda, Judge Brian A. At a hearing on the motions to dismiss, the judge started out by informing plaintiff’s counsel of the fictitious cases he’d found and asking how they’d been included in the filings.

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Can Lawyers Ethically Store and Transmit Client Info in the Cloud?

Attorney at Work

You just need to take reasonable due diligence to know it is secure. Due Diligence. The Commission on Professionalism was established by the Illinois Supreme Court in September 2005 to foster increased civility, professionalism and inclusiveness among lawyers and judges in the state of Illinois.

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The Cost of Trial Experience

Trial Technology

District Judge William Alsup recently addressed the need for “the next generation of practitioners” to gain courtroom experience, stating, “The court will particularly welcome any lawyer with four or fewer years of experience to argue the upcoming motions.” If it were, there would be no need to litigate. In the ongoing Oracle v.

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Johannes Scholtes: AI Is Finally Here. Now the Hard Work Begins for the Legal Industry (TGIR Ep. 191)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Marlene Gebauer 12:06 So Jan, you’ve written about how AI can be used to improve the due diligence process for m&a deals. So, you know, there’s a lot of AI tools out there for m&a due diligence right now. So how do you see AI tools, sort of improving the due diligence process for attorneys?

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How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Legal Recruiting

Attorney at Work

With litigation data, for example, firms can target respected lawyers who have real courtroom experience in key areas and have appeared before critical judges. What judges have they appeared in front of? Do they have specialties or specific areas of expertise that stand out? Do they handle run-of-the-mill cases or complex litigation?