Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
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Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35742052

An Arizona federal court issued extensive sanctions against attorney Maren Bam on August 14, 2025, after finding that her brief contained multiple artificial intelligence-generated citations to non-existent cases. The sanctions include revocation of pro hac vice status, striking the brief, and mandatory notification to state bar authorities.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I’m amazed that these lawyers are using things like ChatGPT, when better solutions exist for the legal industry. The big legal databases (like LexisNexis) have their own AI tools that will give you actual useful results, since they’re trained on caselaw from the database rather than just using a generic model, and link to the relevant cases so you can verify them yourself.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        No, but law firms generally subscribe to these databases.

        At least where I live, lawyers can also go to the local law library to use LexisNexis for free.