While general-purpose AI is powerful for brainstorming, it’s track record in the legal world is dismal at best.
General-purpose chatbots can create polished language, but they cannot safely prepare a court-ready pleading without human legal verification.
The Reality: Generative AI does not search real legal databases. It generates text by predicting statistically likely word patterns. As a result, it routinely invents non-existent cases, fake docket numbers, and fabricated quotations that sound completely real.
The Reality: AI tools blend state and federal rules from different regions, creating “Frankenstein drafts.” It cannot distinguish your courthouse’s specific formatting requirements, local margin guidelines, signature blocks, or your judge’s hyper-specific local rules.
The Reality: AI drafts arguments that sound elegant but lack substantive legal depth. When opposing counsel files a Motion to Dismiss under strict factual pleading standards, generic AI arguments quickly collapse.
The Reality: In response to a flood of fake filings, judges nationwide require formal standing orders. Litigants must now officially disclose whether AI was used. Filing an unverified AI draft without disclosing it is treated as bad-faith misrepresentation.
The use of AI in creating pleadings and other court papers has exploded, and judges are becoming less and less tolerant of AI generated garbage!
As a result, if you file a pleading or other document that is AI generated and is not correct in both substance and form you face the risk of:
The rules of virtually every court in the country provide that in signing a pleading you are certifying that it is accurate and complies with the legal requirements of the court. When a nonsensical AI generated pleading is filed, those rules are violated. Even the quickest internet search will produce dozens of instances of fines and sanctions in the thousands of dollars against careless AI filers.
Judges have also, instead of or in addition to sanctions, completely thrown out pleadings or other AI generated documents that fail to comply. If your complaint is thrown out, your case is gone. If your answer or motion is thrown out, your could be in default which means you lose your case.
Just because chatgpt or gemini has created a document with absolute confidence and assurance, doesn’t mean it will fly in court. Unless your papers are properly prepared, you will lose your case long before you get to trial. The sad reality is, AI doesn’t know how to create legal papers.
We will review any authorities mentioned in your document to make sure they actually exist and are relevant to your case and jurisdiction. You’ll receive a written report of what we find.
In addition to option “A” we’ll make sure that any cases cited actually support the principles stated, we’ll review factual allegations to make sure they correctly support your position and we’ll make sure your document complies with the relevant rules. You”ll receive a detailed report of what we find and what will be needed to address and problems.