{"id":1216956,"date":"2025-02-19T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216956"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:06:36","slug":"ai-making-up-cases-can-get-lawyers-fired-scandalized-law-firm-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216956","title":{"rendered":"AI making up cases can get lawyers fired, scandalized law firm warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morgan &amp; Morgan\u2014which bills itself as &#8220;America&#8217;s largest injury law firm&#8221; that fights &#8220;for the people&#8221;\u2014learned the hard way this month that even one lawyer blindly citing AI-hallucinated case law can risk sullying the reputation of an entire nationwide firm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Wadsworth-v-Walmart-Letter-to-Attorneys-2-13-25.pdf\">letter<\/a> shared in a court filing, Morgan &amp; Morgan&#8217;s chief transformation officer, Yath Ithayakumar, warned the firms&#8217; more than 1,000 attorneys that citing fake AI-generated cases in court filings could be cause for disciplinary action, including &#8220;termination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is a serious issue,&#8221; Ithayakumar wrote. &#8220;The integrity of your legal work and reputation depend on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/ai-making-up-cases-can-get-lawyers-fired-scandalized-law-firm-warns\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/02\/ai-making-up-cases-can-get-lawyers-fired-scandalized-law-firm-warns\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan &amp; Morgan\u2014which bills itself as &#8220;America&#8217;s largest injury law firm&#8221; that fights &#8220;for the people&#8221;\u2014learned the hard way this month that even one lawyer blindly citing AI-hallucinated case law can risk sullying the reputation of an entire nationwide firm. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}