You’ll get old one day. It’s pretty challenging to keep track of what’s real and what isn’t possible with technology.
The guy apologized and said he thought it was a search engine.
He should definitely face some sanctions but someone had to learn this lesson in public the hard way for word to spread.
Here is an example of one of the fabricated cases. The 11th circuit has no record of this case. 1 of the 3 judges named in the case was not on the 11th circuit at the time: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...
Lawyers use specific case law databases and they SHOULD approach any new tools with healthy skepticism.
And if he googled it and cited a fake case would it be better? Why wouldn’t you vet the information.
Disbarment is equivalent to taking away his entire life's work.
Two minute hate on the internet every day is fun and all but it's not that severe.
This is like surgeon doing wrong procedure he just invented on patient.
'Lawyer' is the kind of profession which actually holds its practitioners to a standard, because the system falls apart when they stop behaving honestly.
This wasn't an oopsie-daisies, this was dishonesty, followed by further dishonesty, when they supplied bogus references for these cases.
No, they wouldn’t
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57...
How can anyone trust anything a lawyer does, when they are willing to fabricate documents, in order to continue to lie to a judge? This is Better Call Saul-level chicanery.
He could have fessed up and apologized when called out on it, but he doubled down.
I am also having a thought: stop bullshitting. Or stop being a lawyer as a result of gross incompetence (I wish the same applies to politicians).