Lawyer Who Misused AI Issued Non-Monetary Sanctions for Errors

May 6, 2026, 4:11 PM UTC

A lawyer has been sanctioned for submitting case citations from a generative AI program in filings to a federal district court without checking their accuracy.

Judge Stacey D. Neumann in a Tuesday opinion ordered Kelly Guagenty of the Justice Law Collaborative LLC, an all-women-owned and led plaintiffs firm, to attend a continuing legal education course on the topic of generative AI in the legal field and submit proof she attended.

The judge, of the US District Court for the District of Maine, also ordered Guagenty to create “clear procedures” at her firm “to prevent such errors from happening again,” and ...

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