(Subscription required) According to Axiom’s global survey of over 600 senior legal leaders, nearly 80% of law firms are actively using AI tools. Yet instead of passing efficiency gains on to clients, most are “pocketing the savings—and in many cases, charging even more for AI-enhanced work,” the report says.

Div. One of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has sanctioned a San Diego-area criminal defense/personal injury attorney $1,500 for including a fake quotation from a real case as well as a citation to a fabricated decision in an opposition brief, finding that the conduct was especially egregious because of the criminal context of the proceedings.

(Subscription required) A.I. sparks both alarm and utility -- from
Geoffrey Hinton's warnings to courtroom missteps -- raising questions about
clarity, judgment and how future lawyers will use it.

A Palo Alto lawyer with nearly a half-century of experience admitted to an Oakland federal judge this summer that legal cases he referenced in an important court filing didn’t actually exist and appeared to be products of artificial intelligence “hallucinations.”