{"id":162466,"date":"2026-09-09T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/09\/legal-catastrophes-the-old-fashioned-way\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:35:17","slug":"legal-catastrophes-the-old-fashioned-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/09\/legal-catastrophes-the-old-fashioned-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Catastrophes The Old-Fashioned Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With AI hallucinations dominating the legal ethics headlines for years now, it\u2019s nice to see lawyers landing in hot water without having to rely on technology. For example, Holland &amp; Knight got itself removed from a case in Rhode Island after <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/ncaa-swaps-law-firms-after-its-biglaw-lawyers-called-rhode-island-judge-dumb-in-email-cc-disaster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally putting opposing counsel on their internal emails about \u201cdumb\u201d Rhode Island judges<\/a>. Meanwhile, Skadden and Kirkland <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/skadden-and-kirkland-earn-a-2-million-benchslap-for-hiding-evidence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caught a $2 million sanction<\/a> after repeatedly withholding evidence and the Lewis Rice bankruptcy lead is out following <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/bankruptcy-lawyer-out-after-firm-accused-of-working-for-the-wrong-client\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of serving the wrong client<\/a>. All that and somehow the Golden Girls manage to work their way into the conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/legal-catastrophes-the-old-fashioned-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Catastrophes The Old-Fashioned Way<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With AI hallucinations dominating the legal ethics headlines for years now, it\u2019s nice to see lawyers landing in hot water without having to rely on technology. For example, Holland &amp; Knight got itself removed from a case in Rhode Island after <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/ncaa-swaps-law-firms-after-its-biglaw-lawyers-called-rhode-island-judge-dumb-in-email-cc-disaster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally putting opposing counsel on their internal emails about \u201cdumb\u201d Rhode Island judges<\/a>. Meanwhile, Skadden and Kirkland <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/skadden-and-kirkland-earn-a-2-million-benchslap-for-hiding-evidence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caught a $2 million sanction<\/a> after repeatedly withholding evidence and the Lewis Rice bankruptcy lead is out following <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/bankruptcy-lawyer-out-after-firm-accused-of-working-for-the-wrong-client\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of serving the wrong client<\/a>. All that and somehow the Golden Girls manage to work their way into the conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/legal-catastrophes-the-old-fashioned-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Catastrophes The Old-Fashioned Way<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With AI hallucinations dominating the legal ethics headlines for years now, it\u2019s nice to see lawyers landing in hot water without having to rely on technology. For example, Holland &amp; Knight got itself removed from a case in Rhode Island after accidentally putting opposing counsel on their internal emails about \u201cdumb\u201d Rhode Island judges. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162466","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=162466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}