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‘Sacred duty of the lawyer’

ABERDEEN, Miss. — A federal court in Mississippi sanctioned four attorneys, two on each side of a city contract dispute, for improper use of artificial intelligence. All four lawyers are kicked off the case. Fines range from $1,000 and $3,500, and the two out-of-state attorneys are barred from practicing in the Northern District of Mississippi for two years. The court quotes that technology “can produce words” but it “cannot attach sincerity, truth, or responsibility to what it writes. That remains the sacred duty of the lawyer.”

Read the ruling here.

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