{"id":191774,"date":"2026-03-01T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:40:11","slug":"vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont has few guardrails to restrict how lawyers use AI\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/01\/vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai\/\">Vermont has few guardrails to restrict how lawyers use AI\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/01\/vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai\/\">https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/01\/vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-01 06:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vtdigger.org\">vtdigger.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A New Hampshire attorney used an AI tool to draft a legal brief, citing a quote from a previous court case that didn\u2019t exist, leading to criticism from Vermont Supreme Court justices.<\/li>\n<li>The attorney\u2019s reliance on AI sparked concerns about the potential unreliability and threats to judicial integrity posed by artificial intelligence in legal practice.<\/li>\n<li>Vermont\u2019s court system is grappling with how to handle AI usage, offering guidance but lacking strict regulations, and acknowledging the potential for AI-generated false citations, or \u201challucinations.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Vermont Bar Association has been discussing AI usage among lawyers and teaching how it can be used responsibly, emphasizing the need for lawyers to maintain oversight and client confidentiality.<\/li>\n<li>While some lawyers, like Jared Correia, see AI as a tool for greater efficiency, others, including long-time lawyer Thomas Lamar Enzor, have found significant inaccuracies when using AI, leading them to abandon its use.<\/li>\n<li>As of 2024, Vermont Judiciary\u2019s committee has decided against regulating AI use in law as long as lawyers follow professional conduct rules, although they emphasize the importance of protecting client privacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont has few guardrails to restrict how lawyers use AI\u00a0 https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2026\/03\/01\/vermont-has-few-guardrails-to-restrict-how-lawyers-use-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-01 06:56:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/courtroom-1-20240722.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-191774","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\/191774"}],"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=191774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191776,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191774\/revisions\/191776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}