“As all legal professionals know (or ought to know), it has been documented that AI generally invents case regulation, full with fabricated citations, holdings, and even direct quotes,” his letter mentioned. “As we beforehand instructed you, in case you use AI to determine instances for quotation, each case have to be independently verified.”

Whereas Harry Surden, a regulation professor who research AI authorized points, advised Reuters that “legal professionals have all the time made errors,” he additionally advised that an rising reliance on AI instruments within the authorized subject requires legal professionals to extend AI literacy to completely perceive “the strengths and weaknesses of the instruments.” (A July 2024 Reuters survey discovered that 63 % of legal professionals have used AI and 12 % use it repeatedly, after experts signaled an AI-fueled paradigm shift within the authorized subject in 2023.)

At Morgan & Morgan, it has turn into clear in 2025 that higher AI coaching is required throughout its nationwide agency. Morgan advised the court docket that the agency’s know-how staff and danger administration members have met to “talk about and implement additional insurance policies to forestall one other prevalence sooner or later.”

Moreover, a checkbox acknowledging AI’s potential for hallucinations was added, and it have to be clicked earlier than any lawyer on the agency can entry the interior AI platform.

“Additional, safeguards and coaching are being mentioned to guard towards any errant makes use of of synthetic intelligence,” Morgan advised the court docket.

Whether or not these efforts will assist Morgan & Morgan keep away from sanctions is unclear, however Ithayakumar advised that on par with sanctions could be the reputational loss to the agency’s or any particular person lawyer’s credibility.

“Blind reliance on AI is equal to citing an unverified case,” Ithayakumar advised legal professionals, saying that it’s their “duty and moral obligation” to confirm AI outputs. “Failure to adjust to AI verification necessities could lead to court docket sanctions, skilled self-discipline, self-discipline by the agency (as much as and together with termination), and reputational hurt. Each lawyer should keep knowledgeable of the precise AI-related guidelines and orders within the jurisdictions the place they observe and strictly adhere to those obligations.”