Amanda Robert
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 52
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Fines alone aren't enough to stop attorneys from AI errors (opens the original)
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Increasing sanctions hasn’t stopped lawyers from including artificial intelligence-generated fabrications in court briefs. (Image from Shutterstock) Increasing sanctions hasn’t stopped lawyers from including artificial intelligence-generated fabrications in court briefs. Two lawyers who filed court documents with fake citations and quotes received a record $110,000 fine this year, up markedly from a $5,000 fine in a then-landmark case in 2023, according to a story from Law.com. But the threat of
Lawyer pay is booming amid a strong economy and fierce competition for talent (opens the original)
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In 2020, Blane Prescott served on the compensation committee of an Am Law 100 firm that boosted one equity partner’s pay to an unheard of $20 million. While groundbreaking at the time, some BigLaw partners now command dramatically higher pay packages, says Prescott, the managing shareholder at MesaFive, a management and strategy consulting firm in San Francisco that works with law firms on matters including partner compensation and profit improvement. “We’ve gone over $40 million to the highest-
Legal teams increasingly use AI but worry about its cost, new report shows (opens the original)
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The use of artificial intelligence has continued to grow in the legal industry over the past year, according to a new report from e-discovery company Disco. (Photo by J Studios/Getty Images) The use of artificial intelligence has continued to grow in the legal industry over the past year, according to a new report from e-discovery company Disco. In Legal AI in 2026: Moving Forward Faster, Disco noted that 58% of lawyers and others in the legal profession said they have integrated AI into their r
Judges are increasingly faulting lawyers who fail to point out AI-generated fake citations in their opponents’ filings (opens the original)
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Amid the proliferation of cases involving artificial intelligence-generated hallucinations, more judges are expressing frustration not only at the attorneys who make the mistakes but at opposing counsel for not pointing them out. In the past year, courts have admonished attorneys for failing to identify and report fake citations in their opponents’ court filings. In at least two cases, judges refused to award attorney fees or grant relief to counsel who didn’t bring AI-induced errors to their at
Could the use of AI upend privacy and security expectations in court? (opens the original)
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Shortly after news broke this spring of an unnamed federal judge having sex in chambers with a high-ranking police officer, Above the Law reporters went to work to uncover the judge’s identity. In May, the Judicial Conference of the United States’ Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability issued an order affirming a private reprimand of the judge by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta’s Judicial Council. While both orders concealed the judge’s name and court location, the report
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