Most of the headlines about AI misuse in legal filings involve non-existent cases hallucinated by AI systems used in brief writing without cite checking. Attorneys relying on generative AI systems have been sanctioned after...more
The recent ruling in a lawsuit against Anthropic highlights a growing complexity in how courts are approaching fair use in the context of AI training. Judge William Alsup held that developing Anthropic’s Claude model was...more
7/18/2025
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We've seen repeated issues where lawyers and others have been caught failing to cite check their work. In what might be a first, a judge has relied on a submission including support that doesn't exist and was likely...more
Another federal court has sanctioned lawyers for using generative AI in legal drafting without verifying the results. On July 7, 2025, a U.S. District Judge ordered two attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to each...more
In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge Bilas, the District of Delaware judge in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH and West...more