Law.com/NLJ has 'The Technology Is There': Supreme Court Practitioners Quietly Embracing AI
In interviews with the National Law Journal, prominent Supreme Court advocates reported using generative AI tools in their day-to-day legal practice, including everything from basic legal research to drafting portions of briefs, such as introductions, argument summaries and even questions presented. ....
Some high court advocates say there is still something of a "stigma" about using AI, largely driven by headlines of attorneys submitting court filings with AI-hallucinated case citations. Indeed, one researcher, Damien Charlotin, has put together a running database documenting more than 800 instances of AI hallucinations in court proceedings around the world.
And don't miss Bloomberg Law's Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System:
Moore admitted that he accessed the Supreme Court’s online filing system on 25 days in a roughly two-month span, from August to October 2023, by using the stolen credentials of an authorized user ....
The charges follow separate attacks on the judiciary’s electronic filing system. The federal judiciary revealed last year that the federal courts’ case management system, which is separate from the Supreme Court’s, had suffered a cyberattack.
The attack exploited vulnerabilities targeted in an earlier breach in 2020. Russian government hackers lurked for years in the judiciary’s records system.
The breach prompted federal trial courts to take new measures to restrict electronic access to sealed documents.
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