Above the Law
A few weeks ago, Gordon Rees found itself on the wrong end of a court filing flagging a number of misleading if not completely wrong citations that looked an awful lot like someone told ChatGPT “make me legal filing!” and hit enter. This would be a problem for any firm, but for Gordon Rees, this was at least its third brush with AI trouble — having previously admitted to filing a brief riddled with AI hallucinations in October and then received a reprimand for filings with citations that “do not support the specific explanatory phrase” in December.
As we wrote about the most recent accusation, “Whether any specific citation was generated by AI — indeed, whether any specific citation is even wrong as opposed to merely debatable — opposing counsel now has every incentive to scrutinize any citation out of the firm with a jeweler’s loupe.”
After that article, BriefCatch founder Ross Guberman offered me a sneak peek at RealityCheck, the company’s new authority verification tool. Essentially, the product picks up where my jeweler’s loupe analogy left off, providing a superpowered hallucination check for lawyers. Running it against the original brief from the October Gordon Rees story that the firm already acknowledged to contain hallucinations, the RealityCheck tool delivered exactly what you’d want as opposing counsel.
Or, ideally, the senior partner reviewing your own brief before signing your name to a bunch of hallucinatory nonsense.
Read more
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/new-tool-catches-ai-hallucinations-in-legal-briefs/
