Butler Snow
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Three Butler Snow Attorneys Disqualified Over ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations in Alabama Prison Case
Butler Snow- Significance
- High
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Why this matters
Butler Snow is putting structure around firm-wide AI use. This is a high-significance signal for buyers benchmarking their panel.
US District Judge Anna Manasco disqualified three Butler Snow attorneys from Johnson v. Dunn (representing the Alabama Dept. of Corrections) after motions containing five ChatGPT-fabricated case citations were filed; the matter was referred to the Alabama State Bar, and the firm subsequently implemented firmwide AI training and a new pre-filing citation-verification protocol.
- Significance
- High
- Source type
- Trade Press
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