{"id":118941,"date":"2025-05-13T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=118941"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:56:02","slug":"a-collective-debacle-ellis-george-and-kl-gates-ordered-to-pay-31000-after-using-ai-to-write-brief-in-insurance-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/13\/a-collective-debacle-ellis-george-and-kl-gates-ordered-to-pay-31000-after-using-ai-to-write-brief-in-insurance-case\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Collective Debacle’: Ellis George and K&L Gates Ordered to Pay $31,000 After Using AI to Write Brief in Insurance Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing\u2014only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by plaintiff’s counsel, which appeared to “strongly support their position on the privilege issue,” did not exist at all.<\/p>\n

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Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing\u2014only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by plaintiff’s counsel, which appeared to “strongly support their position on the privilege issue,” did not exist at all.<\/p>\n

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Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing\u2014only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by plaintiff’s counsel, which appeared to “strongly support their position on the privilege issue,” did not exist at all. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/legal-news-2RL6GC.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118947,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118941\/revisions\/118947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}