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10th Circuit orders lawyer to pay $1,000 for faulty AI citations
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The Denver-based federal appeals court ordered a lawyer on Monday to pay $1,000 to the opposing side for submitting a legal filing with fake case citations generated by artificial intelligence. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit acknowledged Kusmin Linda Amarsingh had expressed remorse over using unverified ChatGPT citations.…
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‘Lawyers haven’t gotten the message’: Colorado justices hear debate about proposed AI rule
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The Colorado Supreme Court heard comments from members of the legal profession last week about a proposed rule change intended to remind attorneys that misuse of new artificial intelligence tools can violate longstanding professional obligations. Court of Appeals Judge Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov, who chairs the Rules of Professional Conduct Standing Committee, told the…
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An obligation to use AI? Federal judge addresses lawyers on responsible technology use
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell addressed a group of Colorado attorneys on Friday with the message that they should be practicing and understanding how to use artificial intelligence because it is encroaching on more and more aspects of society. “There was a time when you had to be rich to have a cell phone,”…
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Fake evidence, new expectations and morality: Judges talk about AI in the law
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Judge Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov shared with an audience of lawyers on Wednesday a story from last year’s judicial conference about one trial judge who suspected an attorney representing a domestic violence victim submitted a fake photo to the court of their badly beaten client. “The judge asked: Was this AI generated? And the…
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10th Circuit judges speak about AI, mechanics of oral argument
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Three members of the Denver-based federal appeals court spoke to lawyers on Monday about key considerations when arguing their cases, as well as the potential role artificial intelligence will play in judging. “Broadly speaking, we don’t have really a choice at this point as to whether or not technology’s gonna evolve towards greater use of…
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Appeals court warns lawyers, litigants: You will get in trouble for citing AI-invented cases
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Colorado’s second-highest court put attorneys and litigants on notice for the first time on Thursday that they will face consequences if they use artificial intelligence to submit filings with fake citations. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals declined to sanction a self-represented plaintiff after he acknowledged and apologized for his mistake. At the…
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Colorado Supreme Court committee votes to explore role of AI in practice of law
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An advisory committee to the Colorado Supreme Court recently created a subcommittee that will evaluate existing rules barring the unauthorized practice of law to determine if changes are necessary to accommodate emerging artificial intelligence-powered legal tools. The March 1 vote of the Advisory Committee on the Practice of Law came at the request of the…
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‘AI won’: Judges caution lawyers to educate themselves about artificial intelligence in the law
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A panel of federal and state judges last week told a group of attorneys, in explicit terms, artificial intelligence is here to stay and they must educate themselves about how to use it responsibly. “Here’s how I’ve been trying to think about this: Most of us drive cars. I have a car that has a…
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Disciplinary judge approves lawyer’s suspension for using ChatGPT to generate fake cases
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A Colorado lawyer has received a suspension for using artificial intelligence to generate fake case citations in a legal brief and then lying about it. The presiding disciplinary judge’s imposition of punishment on Zachariah C. Crabill is apparently the first to implicate the improper use of AI. The head of Colorado’s attorney regulation office, Jessica…