Neal Geach

At last. Clause 1 Equality Act now to come into force. All inequality is abhorrent whether based on sex, race, disability, age, LGBT…. or class. 16 years since I wrote Clause 1 “socio-economic” duty. But less than 16 weeks since @andyburnham became PM 👏👏👏👏

More lawyers misusing AI (Westlaw's CoCounsel): 6th Cir. opinion today focuses on criminal defense attorney who "used artificial intelligence to draft the briefs in this case and then filed them without properly verifying the cited legal authorities." "The first tell" that AI use was in play was the file name of the principal brief: "CoCounsel Skill Results." "CoCounsel is the name of Westlaw’s internal artificial-intelligence platform." "Further suspicions arose" when the briefs included three fake quotations and several misrepresented case holdings. Lawyer admitted he directed a staff member to upload district court docs to CoCounsel to create a first draft of the brief. He said this was his first time using Westlaw CoCounsel. Court notes that the fact that the cases are real, and only the quotes were fake, "does not absolve him." "The fact remains that Howe committed inexcusable transgressions during the appellate phase of this case. And that misconduct had consequences." Sanctions: -Lawyer will not be compensated under Criminal Justice Act for time spent on the appeal. -Referred to Chief Judge of 6th Cir. to consider disciplinary proceedings. -Opinion to be served on E.D. Ky. chief judge and clerk and Disciplinary Clerk for Kentucky Bar Association. -Lawyer removed from further representation in the case.

More lawyers in trouble for AI misuse today: Attorney represented a criminal defendant and filed an application to reopen an appeal. The application alleged prosecutorial misconduct and cited quotes attributed to the prosecutor. Only problem was the quotes were completely made up. "The page Appellant cites to on page 4 for the 'legally inflammatory' statement by the prosecutor- is, in fact, the court reporter’s signature page, with no statements of any type by the prosecutor." The fake quotes came from ChatGPT. A paralegal uploaded case materials to ChatGPT and pasted the output into the application. The lawyer didn't catch it. But it gets worse: after the application was denied, the lawyer appealed the denial to the Ohio Supreme Court anyway. And when he submitted his firms "AI Policy" to show he was taking corrective action, the court determined that the policy itself was AI-generated and was incomplete. "The proffering of an AI-generated AI policy as a remedial measure in a case involving the submission of AI-generated fabrications to this court is, at best, ironic." And two months after the sanctions hearing in this case, the attorney did it again, in another case. He submitted a filing with the ChatGPT prompt embedded in the filing itself: "Would you like me to draft the next argument section (e.g., argument 1 – B on the 'nature of the charge' omission) in the same tone and format so your brief reads as a seamless multi-print memorandum?" Sanctions: -$2,000 fine -Referral to Ohio Office of Disciplinary Counsel -Must serve copy of judgment on judge of every court in which he makes an appearance, for 2 years -Must include certification that all cases are real and verified, for 2 years -6 hours mandatory CLE about AI ethics -Must write apology letters to prosecutor, trial judge, trial defense counsel, and prior appellate counsel who were defamed by fake quotes.

State of Georgia’s attorney from the AG’s office in Hannah Payne’s Supreme Court oral argument.

It’s time to set the facts straight 👇 .

From Ezra Klein, more true than ever. You would not believe how many shortcuts everyone else is taking. In many areas, you can get way ahead of everyone just by doing the work. More true than ever now, when more people are shirking and AI lets you do 10x if you try. 1/

A lot of academics still think AI apps generate fake references to papers that don't exist. They are living in 2023. You can easily integrate a database of 280M research papers with Claude and ChatGPT to get answers with references to published papers. Here's how to do it:

Possibly the most beautiful Grok takedown ever witnessed in the education sphere.

New AI citation sanctions. This is not about AI hallucinating. It is extremely poor lawyering. "the Court has spent in excess of 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 addressing this specific issue." 75 hours!!! Wasted. How many other cases got pushed or delayed due to the time this court had to spend on tracking this down? On 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 15, 2026, #### filed her Response, stating that she used generative artificial intelligence ("Al") in research "for preliminary case identification. At the time, I mistakenly believed those tools were 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 for that limited purpose. . .. Regardless of the toot used, the duty to verify citations rests entirely with counsel. I failed to satisfy that duty here." A lawyer. In January of this year. Did not know that using AI and not checking cites - even AFTER opposing counsel pointed it out to her - was a bad idea.

The case for change. Thank you @JamesFrith for this powerful thread of Labour colleagues @NatalieFleetMP, @LFarnz, @catkinson80 and @alexmclabour standing up for victims. Action cannot wait. The courts system faces a slow motion collapse without bold reform.

Spot the difference: Court Reform Gov benches: Women fighting for swifter justice for victims let down by those opposite Opposition: Men in suits clinging on to a Magna Carta myth… Glad to be on side of @sarahsackman & gov, fighting for victims already failed for too long