Judge Imposes Sanctions on Lawyer for AI-Powered Legal Blunders, Mandates Ethics Training
Philadelphia, PA — A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania referenced a line from the 1920 science fiction play, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), to set the stage for a recent disciplinary action involving a lawyer’s inappropriate reliance on artificial intelligence. The play, penned by Czech writer Karel Čapek, debates the essence of humanity in robots, setting a fitting prelude to a case involving the sometimes blurred lines between human and algorithmic judgments in legal practice. In this groundbreaking decision, U.S. District Judge Kai N. Scott sanctioned attorney Raja Rajan for outsourcing legal research … Read more