{"id":182169,"date":"2026-01-27T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:20:07","slug":"attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys \u2013 Artificial intelligence \u2013 Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masslawyersweekly.com\/2026\/01\/27\/attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations\/\">Attorneys \u2013 Artificial intelligence \u2013 Citations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masslawyersweekly.com\/2026\/01\/27\/attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations\/\">https:\/\/masslawyersweekly.com\/2026\/01\/27\/attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-27 18:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"masslawyersweekly.com\">masslawyersweekly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On September 10, 2025, the U.S. District Court issued a show-cause order to attorney Roger A. Peace due to apparent AI-generated citations of nonexistent authority in the plaintiff&#8217;s submissions.<\/li>\n<li>The attorney responded, claiming the errors resulted from a version control mistake and a clerical error but did not clarify the role of AI or details about the clerical mistake.<\/li>\n<li>The Court emphasized the submission of false authority\u2014whether by AI or not\u2014violates professional conduct rules, including an attorney\u2019s duty of candor.<\/li>\n<li>Given the dismissal of the case for lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim, the Court decided to refer the matter to the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers for potential disciplinary actions.<\/li>\n<li>The opinion highlights the implications of using AI in legal work and the importance of adhering to professional conduct rules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys \u2013 Artificial intelligence \u2013 Citations https:\/\/masslawyersweekly.com\/2026\/01\/27\/attorneys-artificial-intelligence-citations\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-27 18:01:00 Source Domain: masslawyersweekly.com On&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/masslawyersweekly.com\/files\/2021\/10\/MALW-Digital-Product-Mockups_Tessa.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182171,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182169\/revisions\/182171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}