Good legal writing is a lot more than simply getting the law right. The year 2025 has been a very busy one for me in terms of drafting legal briefs on some issue or another. This means that not only ...

Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t ...

The Second District Court of Appeal held that multiple instances of AI-fabricated case quotations in submitted briefs rendered an appeal frivolous. In an apparent first, a California state appellate ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please ...

"I've signed many of them over the years," retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said of amicus briefs from former jurists. "But nothing like now. Now, it's like every other week somebody is ...

The Appellate Court of Maryland this week referred Bel Air lawyer Adam Hyman to the Attorney Grievance Commission after he was found to have cited fake cases in a brief generated with artificial ...

The US government has filed a letter opposing the introduction of an amicus brief from the digital asset advocacy group DeFi ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The national American Civil Liberties Union, the Cato Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and The Woods Foundation filed an amicus brief in the Alabama Supreme Court today, ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the federal use of National Guard troops highlights how academic legal analysis can play a decisive role at the n ...