Court Cites Lack of Competent Representation in AI Misuse Case

March 27, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC


A Pennsylvania lawyer violated state ethics rules by failing to provide competent representation to a client when he submitted briefs filled with “erroneous” citations generated by AI, the Third Circuit said.

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a split decision reprimanded Daniel A. Pallen of Media, Pennsylvania, after finding that he “neither read nor verified the existence of the cited authorities” in the briefs he filed, and took “no ...

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