Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations: Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
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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.
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
PPC Land (ppc.land)
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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.
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
PPC Land (ppc.land)
It's happening in Australia too. The headline in this article needs some work.
I propose:
"Soon to be disbarred King's Council used Assumed Intelligence instead of Actual Intelligence to argue a murder case"
Senior lawyer files AI-generated submissions in Victorian teen murder case
The fake submissions included fabricated quotes from a speech to the state legislature and non-existent case citations purportedly from Victoria's Supreme Court.
(www.abc.net.au)
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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.
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
PPC Land (ppc.land)
Lawyers took the techbros' blue pill
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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.
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
PPC Land (ppc.land)
How naïve it was of me, to think that the New York Avianca case in 2023 was high profile enough for lawyers to have learnt their lesson, but nope, it's getting worse each and every month that goes by:
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
(www.damiencharlotin.com)
It doesn't help that the most common outcomes there are "Warning" or a fine in the low thousands. If a legal practice can save $500,000 a year on avoiding doing their own research, and the worse that's likely to happen is "Warning" or a $2,000 fine, then why would they not?
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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.
Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.
PPC Land (ppc.land)
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.
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How naïve it was of me, to think that the New York Avianca case in 2023 was high profile enough for lawyers to have learnt their lesson, but nope, it's getting worse each and every month that goes by:
AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin
Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.
(www.damiencharlotin.com)
It doesn't help that the most common outcomes there are "Warning" or a fine in the low thousands. If a legal practice can save $500,000 a year on avoiding doing their own research, and the worse that's likely to happen is "Warning" or a $2,000 fine, then why would they not?
How are they not immediately disbarred for this? Surely fabricating documents and citations gets you disbarred right?
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How are they not immediately disbarred for this? Surely fabricating documents and citations gets you disbarred right?
It doesnt, but it should. Its malpractice of the highest degree and shows clear disregard for properly representing a client
