David Kluft

#LegalEthics Tidbit: If my hashtag#AI platform misquotes a case, but I previously accurately quoted that case, will that help lessen the sanctions?

A MS attorney got rid of his Westlaw subscription to cut costs and switched to Fastcase. He didn’t like Fastcase so he supplemented his legal research with Google searches. He intended to cite check everything in a particular brief before submitting it but he ran out of time, so he filed it ... (cont.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mssd.130336/gov.uscourts.mssd.130336.28.0.pdf
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Jun 11 at 2:53pmWeb
Show threadDavid KluftJun 11
... anyway. The actual hallucination wasn’t so bad – it misquoted the supreme court as saying certain speech was “nondisruptive by nature,” when actually SCOTUS said “our decisions have noted the ‘nondisruptive’ nature of” the speech. The lawyer had previously quoted the same case accurately in other filings. The Court felt that an admonishment (the lowest ... (cont.)
Show threadDavid KluftJun 11
... level remedy it could think of) was sufficient, because the lawyer took responsibility for the problem, demonstrated changes to his firm policy, and because the relatively limited hallucination arose from a temporary “lack of attention to detail.”