As I aaaaam sure you know, there are many court opinions out there now imposing sanctions on lawyers for filing documents with fake citations created by AI. (For an updated list you can check out this helpful website).
For that reason, a story on yet another court imposing sanctions is not that remarkable, but I want to point this one out to remind you that sometimes the court will order the lawyer (not the client) to pay the sanction.
As reported in the ABA Journal, in this case, a lawyer and a law firm (in Illinois) were ordered to pay nearly $60,000 for filing a court document that included a fake citation. The lawyer himself, personally, out of his own pocket, was ordered to pay $10,000. The firm was ordered to pay $49,500.
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