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Updated: A Florida foreclosure lawyer has said his name and his bar number were used in a court filing generated by artificial intelligence. And he had nothing to do with the case.
Lawyer Matthew Weidner told Florida Bar News that he learned of the problem after he was contacted by another lawyer about the filing.
Weidner has filed an unauthorized practice of law complaint against the litigation services company that filed the document, which used a court filing that he had posted online in an unrelated case.
“Somewhere in the back of my brain, I read my brilliant writing and I say, ‘Wow, whoever drafted that motion was really on their toes,’” joked Weidner, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The litigation services company generated the document for defendant John H. Barber in an eviction case in Florida’s Sixth Judicial Circuit, report Law360 and Above the Law The plaintiff in the case, U.S. Bank, is seeking sanctions for the botched filing.
The document claimed to be submitted through a “counsel” who is not a Florida licensed lawyer, according to the motion for sanctions.
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