Fayetteville Attorney Caught Using AI in Filings Faces Sanctions, Report Says

Fayetteville attorney caught using AI in filings faces sanctions, report says

Fayetteville attorney Tony Pirani “conceded that these materials contained citations to nonexistent cases and quotations of nonexistent passages,” Brooks wrote.

Federal Judge Sanctions Fayetteville Attorney Over AI-Generated Filings

Fayetteville attorney Tony Pirani was in hot water with a federal judge even before he was hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict last week in a hearse-chasing case. At a pretrial conference on July 11, Pirani “admitted to using artificial intelligence to draft” filings in the case, according to the opinion and order filed July 16 by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy L. Brooks. Pirani “conceded that these materials contained citations to no…