When a New York lawyer made national news earlier this year—and was subsequently sanctioned—for citing fabricated court opinions derived from ChatGPT, the expectation was that practitioners across the country would be more prudent when using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in court filings. At the very least, to avoid the public embarrassment and potential sanctions.
Yet this month, a second New York lawyer, who represented former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, has been ordered to show cause that the case law he cited in Cohen’s motion for early termination of supervised release actually exists, despite the court’s concerns that ...