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44 incidents closest to “Everlaw AI Assistant” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The attorney's use of generative AI to draft a legal brief produced incorrect case citations, subjecting the attorney to potential court sanctions and affecting the integrity of the filing.
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Attorneys from Ellis George LLP and K&L Gates LLP submitted a brief to a special master in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California containing numerous hallucinated legal citations generated by AI tools including CoCounsel, Westlaw Precision, and Google Gemini. The lawyers failed to verify the citations, and even after being alerted to errors, filed a corrected brief that still contained fake authorities. Special Master Michael Wilner found the conduct tantamount to bad faith, struck the brief, denied discovery relief, and ordered the firms to jointly pay $31,100 in the defendant's legal fees.
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AI generated false legal citations that were submitted in court, affecting the plaintiff in an insurance dispute.
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Generated legal filings that were submitted to a court, potentially affecting the client's case and the court's proceedings.
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In-house counsel group accuses rival of training AI on its materials Reuters
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A federal judge's temporary restraining order blocked parts of Mississippi House Bill 1193, affecting state officials, educators, parents, and students, while also citing nonexistent people and misstating law.
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A judge issued a court order reprimanding an attorney, based on AI-generated false case citations.
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A junior advocate in South Africa used the AI tool Legal Genius to draft court submissions for an urgent licensing dispute. The written arguments contained multiple non-existent case citations, which the presiding judge discovered. The junior counsel admitted to using the AI tool, apologised, and was referred to the Legal Practice Council for investigation, while the senior counsel also apologised for conducting only a 'sense-check'.
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A Melbourne lawyer used AI software Leap to generate a list of case citations for a family court hearing. The citations were fake, causing the hearing to be adjourned. The lawyer apologized and paid costs, but was referred to the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner for investigation. The software vendor Leap stated that a verification process was available but not used by the lawyer.
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The AI-generated performance evaluation contributed to the teacher's termination.
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Ranked job applicants' likelihood of success, affecting their hiring prospects.
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Two lawyers from Levidow, Levidow, & Oberman used ChatGPT to research legal precedents for a client's personal injury case against Avianca. The AI chatbot generated six non-existent cases, which the lawyers submitted to a federal court without verification. After the opposing party and the judge questioned the citations, the lawyers initially stood by them before admitting the error. The judge dismissed the case and imposed a $5,000 fine on the lawyers for bad faith conduct.
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訴状もプレスリリースも「AIだのみ」 弁護士つけずに〝本人訴訟〟 驚いて取材すると… - ｄメニューニュース
A man relied entirely on AI to draft a lawsuit and a press release, then filed a pro se complaint against a yakiniku restaurant. He alleged the restaurant served him cold noodles that had fallen into a drain and sought 30,000 yen in damages. Even the decision to contact reporters was made with AI guidance.
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The Federal Court denied leave to file an AI-generated pleading, delaying the applicant's case.
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以為只是在跟AI私下聊天？ChatGPT對話紀錄已多次成為美國法庭證據 - ETtoday AI科技
ChatGPT conversations and other AI chatbot logs are increasingly being used as evidence in US legal cases. Over the past two years, at least 12 public court cases—both criminal and civil—have cited such records. Police may obtain logs directly from a user's phone, and AI companies may alert law enforcement if they detect credible threats of imminent harm. Courts have also ruled that AI chats do not have the same legal confidentiality protections as communications with a lawyer, doctor, or therapist.
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Mike Lindell's legal team submitted a brief in a defamation case that contained approximately 30 citations to non-existent court cases. The brief was generated using artificial intelligence, and the team admits to using AI but claims an earlier draft was filed by mistake. Federal judge Nina Wang has ordered the attorneys to show cause why they should not face sanctions for the defective filing.
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The system scored the employee's video interview and recommended rejection for a promotion.
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Luật sư bị phạt vì dùng AI 'bịa' lời khai nhân chứng - Báo Thanh Niên
The New Mexico Supreme Court fined defense attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 for filing legal documents with false witness statements created by ChatGPT. Aarons had input case materials into the AI, hoping for a perfect summary, but it generated fabricated details. The court found he failed to verify the documents and referred his case to a disciplinary board.
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"아동 성착취물로 AI 훈련?"...머스크 xAI, 집단 소송 휘말려 - YTN
A lawsuit claims xAI used images of a plaintiff's childhood sexual abuse to train its Grok AI model without consent. The victim says AI-generated child sexual abuse material depicting them was created and spread through Grok. The suit seeks damages per violation and demands xAI block tools that generate sexual images.
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The Galileu AI system, developed by the Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 4ª Região (TRT-RS) and nationalised by the Conselho Superior da Justiça do Trabalho (CSJT), detected a prompt injection attempt in a petition filed at the 3rd Labour Court of Parauapebas, Pará. The system alerted the magistrate, who reviewed the content and made a decision based on human verification, in line with judicial AI supervision requirements. The court reported that the system prevented the malicious content from being processed and highlighted the importance of institutional AI tools with security measures.
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Kusmin L. Amarsingh, a Maryland lawyer representing herself, was sanctioned $1,000 by the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after she used ChatGPT to draft an appellate brief that cited multiple nonexistent cases. The court found her actions reckless and referred her to Maryland attorney-disciplinary authorities. Amarsingh admitted the error and completed a continuing legal education course on AI ethics. The underlying racial bias lawsuit against Frontier Airlines was dismissed.
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Attorney Howe used Westlaw's CoCounsel AI to draft appellate briefs for a criminal defendant. The briefs contained fabricated quotations and misrepresented case holdings. The Sixth Circuit discovered the AI use from the file name and, upon investigation, found the citations false. Howe admitted he failed to adequately review the AI-generated content. The court denied compensation, appointed new counsel, and referred Howe for disciplinary proceedings.
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In early 2025, a lawyer submitted a brief to the Norwegian Supreme Court in a civil case that contained laws and legislative history invented by an AI tool. Supreme Court staff discovered the non-existent sources during routine review. The court stated the lawyer had not checked the AI-generated sources before filing and raised the matter with the lawyer, but no sanctions were imposed. Høyesterett updated its attorney guide to require quality-checking of AI output.
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In a defamation case in Johannesburg, lawyers for plaintiff Michelle Parker used ChatGPT to find supporting judgments, but the cases turned out to be entirely fictitious, generated by the AI's hallucination. The opposing counsel and law librarians could not locate the cited judgments, leading to the discovery that they were fabricated. The magistrate found no intent to mislead but ordered Parker to pay punitive costs, warning against relying on AI without verification.
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