Topic: Legal Briefs

Lawyers are increasingly facing disciplinary action for filing legal briefs containing fictitious quotes and citations generated by AI. NPR reports on a Nebraska Supreme Court case where an attorney was grilled for using "hallucinated" case law. Legal scholars have documented over 1,200 instances of courts catching erroneous AI material, leading some jurisdictions to require lawyers to label all AI-assisted documents.

A federal judge declined to sanction Michael Cohen after he accidentally submitted fake case citations generated by artificial intelligence in a legal filing. The judge described the incident as embarrassing but did not end Cohen's supervised release stemming from his 2018 convictions.

A listener named Patrick B. submitted a mock legal brief against John C. Dvorak, labeling him "The Buzzkill." The complaint demands that the defendant cease playing the kazoo during the Gitmo Nation National Anthem to avoid distracting the "happy and distracted slaves."