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    Yet another case where lawyers briefs with fake citations, this time K+L Gates Archived Message

    Posted by ATL on May 13, 2025, 11:41:52

    and they did it twice, including AFTER the Special Master pointed out the hallucinations.


    I conclude that the lawyers involved in filing the Original and Revised Briefs collectively acted in a manner that was tantamount to bad faith. Fink, 239 F.3d at 994. The initial, undisclosed use of AI products to generate the first draft of the brief was flat-out wrong. Even with recent advances, no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing to this technology – particularly without any attempt to verify the accuracy of that material. And sending that material to other lawyers without disclosing its sketchy AI origins realistically put those professionals in harm’s way. Mr. Copeland candidly admitted that this is what happened, and is unreservedly remorseful about it. 18.

    Yet, the conduct of the lawyers at K&L Gates is also deeply troubling. They failed to check the validity of the research sent to them. As a result, the fake information found its way into the Original Brief that I read. That’s bad. But, when I contacted them and let them know about my concerns regarding a portion of their research, the lawyers’ solution was to excise the phony material and submit the Revised Brief – still containing a half-dozen AI errors. Further, even though the lawyers were on notice of a significant problem with the legal research (as flagged by the brief’s recipient: the Special Master), there was no disclosure to me about the use of AI. Instead, the e-mail transmitting the new brief merely suggested an inadvertent production error, not improper reliance on technology. Translation: they had the information and the chance to fix this problem, but didn’t take it. Cohen, 724 F.Supp.3d at 259.

    https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3920&context=historical

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