Wake Up Call: Judge Fines Hagens Berman Over AI in OnlyFans Case

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• A judge in California fined Hagens Berman, one of its partners, and another lawyer a combined $13,000 for the “misuse” of artificial intelligence in several court filings in a lawsuit against the parent company of adult content social media site OnlyFans. The judge found that Hagens Berman and partner Robert Carey, in filing four briefs that included material “hallucinated” by AI, violated a rule that requires legal arguments to be “warranted by existing law.” (Reuters)
• Freshfields’ US revenue reached £473.3 million ($634.7 million) in the last financial year after increasing by a higher percentage than in any other location. Overall, Freshfields’ total revenue rose for the second year in a row to £2.25 billion, up by 5.9% from the previous year’s total revenue of £2.12 billion. (Law.com)
• A Massachusetts Superior Court judge took the unusual step of allowing the deposition of an Massachusetts Institute of Technology in-house lawyer in a long-running wrongful termination lawsuit brought by former Media Lab researcher Babak Babakinejad, who claims he was fired for raising concerns about research misconduct in the Open Agriculture Initiative. (Boston Business Journal)

Laterals, Moves, In-House

• Carol Lumpkin and Shawn Hogue joined Hunton Andrews Kurth as litigation partners in Miami. They join from K&L Gates.
• Graham Cronogue joined Blank Rome as a partner in its business litigation group in Washington. He joins from Baker McKenzie.