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We’ve officially moved beyond the “ChatGPT made up a few cases” stage of the artificial intelligence ethics crisis. Now, the robots are apparently inventing witnesses and police testimony in murder appeals. Progress!

New Mexico attorney Stephen Aarons was held in contempt and fined $5,000 after filing an appellate brief containing “false testimony from wholly fabric...


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When Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced that corporate chair Michael Aiello was leaving for what it pointedly called “a smaller platform” (the platform in question being Cravath), it was ...


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The most important decision an AI agent makes may be the decision not to decide.

As legal AI moves from answering questions to participating in transactions, we need systems that know when to stop, ask for approval, or hand the matter to a human. That sounds obvious. Yet much of the current conversation still treats escalation as a function of confidence: if the sys...


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Donald Trump’s project to remake the federal civil service into something that screens for loyalty just hit a road bump in Massachusetts.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge George O’Toole granted three federal-employee unions a stay under Section 705 of the Administrative Procedure Act, temporarily barring federal agencies from putting “Question Three” on civil service ...


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