This lawyer used ChatGPT for legal research — a decision he now 'greatly regrets'.
The chatbot listed "bogus" legal cases that the lawyer included in his brief.A New York lawyer could be sanctioned after he usedSteven A. Schwartz, who has practised law in the state for more than three decades, was part of the legal team of Roberto Mata — a man suing airline Avianca over an alleged incident where a serving trolley struck his knee and injured him.
Mr Schwartz, a lawyer at the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, had prepared a brief that was supposed to use precedent to prove why the case should move forward after Avianca's lawyers asked a federal court judge to toss it out. But the brief raised the eyebrows of the airline's legal team, who wrote to the judge that they could not find several cases that were cited.
The judge has ordered Mr Schwartz and one of his colleagues, Peter Loduca, to explain why they should not be penalised, saying in an order that he had been presented with an "unprecedented circumstance". "Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations," Judge P. Kevin Castel wrote.that Mr Loduca's name was listed on the documents because he is not admitted to practice in federal court — where the lawsuit had been transferred to after originally being filed in a state court. He said he continued to perform all of the legal work for the case and that Mr Loduca was unaware he had used ChatGPT to conduct it.
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