Arizona court sanctions lawyer for AI-generated false citations
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Judge revokes attorney's pro hac status and imposes multiple sanctions after majority of legal citations were fabricated by AI.

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.

  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    23 hours ago

    All the prior cases from these chatGPT lawyers should be reviewed. What other shortcuts were they taking before? Did an innocent person end up in jail because of some prior negligence?

    • druidjaidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      A very small minority of lawyers work criminal cases.

      This lawyer in particular only works on Social Security Disabilty claims.