The law firm Morgan & Morgan has rushed out a stern email to its attorneys after two of them were caught citing fake court cases invented by an AI model, Reuters reports. Sent earlier this month to all of its over 1,000 lawyers, the email warns at length about the tech’s proclivity for hallucinating. But the pros of the tech, apparently, still outweigh the cons; rather than banning AI usage — something that plenty of organizations have done — Morgan & Morgan leadership take the middle road and give the usual spiel about please double-checking your work to ensure it’s not totally made-up nonsense. “As we previously instructed you, if you use AI to identify cases for citation, every case must be independently verified,” the email reads. “The integrity of your legal work and reputation depend on it.” Last week, a federal judge in Wyoming admonished two Morgan & Morgan lawyers for citing at least nine instance of fake case law in court filings submitted in January. Threatened with sanctions, the embarrassed lawyers blamed an “internal AI tool” for the mishap, and pleaded the judge for mercy. “When lawyers are caught using ChatGPT or any generative AI tool to create citations without checking them, that’s incompetence, just pure and simple,” Andrew Perlman, dean of Suffolk University’s law school and an advocate of using AI in legal work, told Reuters. The judge hasn’t decided whether he’ll punish the lawyers yet, per Reuters. Nonetheless, it’s an enormous embarrassment for the relatively well-known firm,…Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents