Lawyers at Morgan & Morgan filed a motion in Wadsworth v. Walmart citing cases that did not exist, produced by the firm's in-house AI platform. A federal judge in Wyoming revoked one attorney's pro hac vice admission and fined three lawyers $5,000 in total.
Liability can flow upstream to the AI tool vendor; contract allocation matters.
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