AI can now be used responsibly to increase the quality of legal services. However in the case Zhang v. Chen, 2024 BCSC 285, a lawyer filed two fictitious cases in her notice of application, which were generated by ChatGPT but not verified for authenticity. The family law case involved an application for costs following an…
The submission of fake legal cases and legal arguments created by ChatGPT has resulted in a $5,000 fine against a lawyer and his firm. The underlying personal injury case involved lawyers using AI for legal briefs to avoid a dismissal of the claim. Artificial intelligence performed the legal research and writing normally done by junior…
For his use of the artificial intelligence ChatGPT to draft a legal brief (Mata v. Avianca) a personal injury lawyer now faces potential sanctions. As a result, Federal judge Brantley Starr is now requiring lawyers in his cases to certify that they did not use artificial intelligence to draft their filings without a human checking…
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