The council approved recommendations supporting OCA funding requests for resource attorneys and a pilot grant for staff attorneys at trial courts, citing a nearly 30% increase in appellate filings and growing complexity partly attributed to AI‑assisted filings.

A New Mexico attorney is facing contempt charges and a $5,000 fine after submitting an appellate brief in a murder case filled with witnesses and testimony that never existed — all generated by ChatGPT. The lawyer says he used the AI to create a "bulletproof summary" of the case, only to discover it had fabricated key details instead. A supreme court justice had a pointed question for him: "Do you watch the news?" https://qz.com/new-mexico-lawyer-contempt-chatgpt-fabricated-testimony-murder-appeal-091126

Google Cloud just launched a purpose-built AI platform for law firms and corporate legal teams, promising to automate everything from contract review to court filing prep. Four major firms are already on board, and the pressure is on: clients are demanding AI adoption and the cost savings that come with it. Is this the beginning of a seismic shift in how legal work gets done? https://qz.com/google-gemini-enterprise-legal-law-firms-082526

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The Law Society of Ontario has suspended a lawyer for six months after a judge exposed her use of AI-generated, non-existent legal precedents during a family and estate law hearing. The case marks the first time a Canadian law society has taken such action against a lawyer for abusing artificial intelligence in court. Mary Hyun-Sook Lee, who operates as Jisuh Lee, was found to have submitted fabricated case law and misled the court, leading to her suspension and a $10,000 penalty. The incident occurred during a 2025 hearing where Judge Fred Myers identified the AI-generated material as 'hallucinated precedents' and 'farcical misreadings' of real cases. Lee failed to provide verifiable sources for the cases she cited, prompting the judge to look them up online and find they did not exist or were irrelevant. The tribunal ordered Lee to follow remedial guidelines and pay costs, while the matter of civil contempt remains unresolved due to procedural issues. This case highlights the growing ethical concerns around AI use in legal practice and the potential consequences of misusing such technology in court.

Morgan Zearn, Governor Myers' nominee to the Delaware Supreme Court, told the Senate Executive Committee she rejected a prior AMC settlement on narrow Delaware-law grounds and would make the same call today; she emphasized adherence to precedent and discussed court responses to AI and access for pro se litigants.

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A UK police officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to create and plant false evidential material in multiple cases.