Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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70 incidents closest to “CoCounsel Legal” · matched on meaning · public reporting
Generated fake case citations used in a legal brief, misleading the court and opposing parties.
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Lawyers at Morgan & Morgan filed a legal brief in a case against Walmart that cited nine cases, eight of which were entirely fictional. The firm admitted that an AI chatbot had generated the non-existent cases. Morgan & Morgan apologised for the error.
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The AI tool generated fictitious case law citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the plaintiff and the court.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI system generated hallucinated content that was submitted in a court filing, potentially misleading the court.
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The lawyer submitted AI-generated court documents containing false citations and quotes, harming his client's discrimination case.
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Sullivan & Cromwell, an elite Wall Street law firm, used an AI tool to help draft a court filing in the Prince Group case. The filing contained inaccurate citations and misquoted the US bankruptcy code due to AI hallucinations. The errors were uncovered by opposing counsel Boies Schiller Flexner, and the firm apologised to the judge and filed a corrected version. The firm stated that its AI policies were not followed and its review process failed to catch the mistakes.
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The AI generated fake case citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were presented to the court, affecting the defendants and the judicial process.
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The AI generated fabricated case law that was included in a court filing, misleading the court and resulting in sanctions against the litigant.
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The AI system generated fabricated case citations and quotations that were included in a legal brief, leading to a monetary sanction against the lawyer.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the defendant's legal representation and the court's resources.
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The AI generated nonexistent case citations that were filed in court, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has filed a lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court against Caseway AI, alleging that the company's AI chatbot scraped approximately 3.5 million records from CanLII's database in bulk, violating its terms of service and copyright. CanLII claims it adds value to public court records through hyperlinks and corrections, which it says constitute protected copyrighted work. Caseway AI argues the information is public and accessible elsewhere, and that it did not use CanLII's enhancements. The lawsuit was settled in March 2026, with terms undisclosed.
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AI generated fabricated case law citations that were included in a court filing, potentially misleading the court in Russell v. Mells.
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The AI generated false legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and potentially harming the client's case.
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AI-hallucinated fake quotations were included in court filings submitted by counsel Elizabeth Tate, misleading the court.
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AI-generated fake legal citations were included in a court filing, resulting in monetary sanctions against the attorney and his law firm.
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The AI generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The court imposed monetary sanctions and continuing legal education requirements on plaintiff's counsel for using AI-generated fake legal authorities in a court filing.
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The attorney filed a court document containing AI-hallucinated legal authorities, misleading the court and opposing party.
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The AI generated fictitious legal citations and quotes that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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AI generated hallucinated content in a court filing, affecting the legal process and the lawyers who filed it.
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The AI-generated hallucinated citations in an expert report led to the exclusion of the expert and dismissal of the plaintiff's case.
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