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Oct 24 (Reuters) – Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was “profoundly embarrassed” after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, an 1,800-lawyer firm that had been representing a creditor in an Alabama hospital bankruptcy case, in a Thursday filing, opens new tab apologized to the judge and others involved in the bankruptcy. The firm said it has updated its AI policies to prevent against misuse and would accept any sanctions the court imposed.
Gordon Rees is the latest large law firm to be forced to explain itself in a case involving potential misuse of AI. Lawyers across the country, at firms of all sizes, have faced sanctions and harsh warnings for not vetting the technology’s output.
Gordon Rees and some of its lawyers submitted the filings ahead of a hearing scheduled for Tuesday before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Hawkins in Montgomery.
Hawkins in August had asked the firm and Cassie Preston, the lawyer representing creditor Progressive Perfusion, to explain why they should not be sanctioned after submitting a filing with what the judge called “pervasive inaccurate, misleading, and fabricated citations, quotations, and representations of legal authority.”
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