3 AI legal cases and lessons for us all: when expert evidence hallucinates, AI evaluates employee skills and must lawyers check their opponent’s work?

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"The Court also finds troubling [Lawyer's] failure to identify or bring the non-existent case citations to the Court's attention before the hearing on the motion to compel arbitration. The Court should not be left as the last line of defense against citations to fictional cases in briefs filed with the court. While [Lawyer] did not create or rely on the fake citations, he also did not detect them. Instead, he admitted he did not review the cases cited by his opponent...."

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Thirty one UK Cases of Hallucinated Citations, AI and Otherwise: “It is not ‘co-operating with the Tribunal’ to neither confirm nor deny the use of AI”

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"93. In further submissions, the Representative said 'The suggestion that citing a published authority amounts to providing false material is misconceived. A court decision is a matter of public record. Whether a case applies is a matter of legal argument and opinion, not misrepresentation. It is entirely proper for parties to put forward different interpretations for the Tribunal to consider. To characterise this as "false material" is both unfounded and inappropriate.' It is not clear who the representative is quoting as saying false material was used. The wording used by HMRC was 'inaccurate use of AI/inaccurate authorities'.

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Lessons from Australia and the United States: Self-representation, Anonymous Second Opinions, AI and Unregulated Legal Services

AI in the courts and anonymous second opinions

As I was catching up on recent international decisions in the developing field of AI and the law, I found myself drawn to two in particular, one from the United States and one from Australia. I initially considered writing about each decision separately. In the end, I felt that reading them together offered a more helpful way of exploring three issues that I have been reflecting on for some time and which I hope will also be of practical interest to readers navigating similar questions.

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