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A Utah judge fines BYU's outside lawyers $3,000 over AI-hallucinated briefs
One lawyer said he drafted with four AI tools and never checked the output. The other didn't review the filings at all.
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The first SRA-authorised AI law firm helps a freelancer win £7,000 at trial
Garfield AI did the paperwork; a human barrister argued the case. The firm says the client paid about £400 in fees.
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Alaska's courts launch a probate chatbot after a "three-month project" took more than a year
AVA answers questions about settling an estate. Its builders cut their test set from 91 questions to 16 and scaled back the goal of replicating a human helper.
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A federal appeals court fines a lawyer $2,500 for an AI-drafted brief and evasive answers
The Fifth Circuit found 16 fabricated quotations in a reply brief. It said the sanction would likely have been lower if the lawyer had owned up.
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The 'robot lawyer' settles: FTC orders DoNotPay to pay $193,000
DoNotPay sold a subscription it called "the world's first robot lawyer." The FTC says the company never checked whether it worked like one, and has now finalized an order that bans the claim without evidence.
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