Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article discussing the ramifications of two Manhattan lawyers filing a ChatGPT-generated court brief, including monetary fines, possible additional bar discipline, and embarrassment.
“A litigator would have to be living under a rock not to have gotten the message already about the risks of blithely relying on ChatGPT,” said Fordham Law professor Bruce Green. “The bigger disciplinary risk relates to the lawyer’s conduct after his initial memo of law was challenged, when the lawyer failed to go back and check the cases, and instead reaffirmed their legitimacy.”
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The New York Bar’s grievance committee is “quite likely to consider imposing some sort of discipline” from the lawyers’ conduct after submitting the brief, Green said.
Read “Fake ChatGPT Cases Cost Lawyers $5,000 Plus Embarrassment” on Bloomberg Law.