Category: Artificial Intelligence and Law
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When AI Hallucinations Meet the Courtroom: How One Lawyer’s Repeated Failures Led to Default Judgment
The Case of Flycatcher v. Affable I must admit that despite my fondness for covering artificial intelligence, and the fact I use AI to help me craft my posts, even I am having trouble keeping up with the number of lawyers getting in trouble for…
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Four Strategies for Legal Professionals to Reduce AI Hallucinations
Quite a few attorneys have gotten in trouble and/or publicly humiliated for citing non-existent cases obtained via artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT. Most of these attorneys claimed they were unaware that AI could fabricate cases. There are several issues with this excuse. First, attorneys are…
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Agentic AI: Why the Next Wave Demands More From Us, Not Less
We’re at an inflection point with AI. The systems being deployed today don’t just answer questions or generate text – they plan, execute multi-step workflows, and make decisions across extended chains of reasoning. This is agentic AI, and it represents a fundamental shift in how…
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AI Document Consolidation: Hidden Risks Lawyers Must Know
I have written before about how I use AI tools to assemble PowerPoint decks. For lawyers, this can be incredibly efficient. I can take multiple slide decks, articles, ethics opinions, and outlines and ask a generative AI system to consolidate them into a single, coherent…
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Checking the Law Still Means Reading the Cases
How to Deal with Artificial Intelligence When Conducting Legal Research Over the past year, courts have had to confront an uncomfortable and increasingly common problem involving artificial intelligence and misinformation. Briefs have been filed citing cases that do not exist or inaccurately describing holdings. Judicial…
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AI Operating Instructions for Legal Practice
Did you know that you can give standing orders to many AIs? Once you provide these orders and tell them to remember them, many AIs will remember the orders and always follow them. I use standing orders to decrease (but not eliminate) the risk of…
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Reassurance Loops and Why AI Can Quietly Undermine Judgment
One of the most subtle risks in working with AI has nothing to do with hallucinations, data breaches, or outright errors. It has to do with reassurance. People often describe AI as persuasive or authoritative, but that is not quite right. What AI does exceptionally…
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The Quiet Automation of Healthcare
I recently went to Jefferson to see my doctor. It was a doctor I don’t need to see very often, and I had not visited her for several years. When I spoke to the person to set up the appointment, she told me that the…