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" class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="width:646px;"><img src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/875a8d14-7b01-46fc-b4c0-bfdc82e8655c/Newsletter_Image__59___1_.png?t=1779760422" alt="" height="auto" width="646" style="display:block;width:100%;border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;border-color:#E5E7EB;" border="0"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> A Massachusetts judge <a class="link" href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:a9a3286d-3a3c-4d8f-9559-677478433c1f?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover&utm_source=the-redline.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=morgan-morgan-s-ai-blunder&_bhlid=4a806f5cd078774ed5700c68511027ef1356d46b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>has refused</span></a> to let a Morgan & Morgan attorney appear <i>pro hac vice</i> in a high-profile lawsuit against Harvard. The reason: he received a sanction last year for signing court filings that cited fake, AI-generated cases. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"></p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"><b>The details:</b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:10px;" class="ee"><div style="margin-left:0px;" class="edm_outlooklist"><ul style="font-weight:400;list-style-type:disc;margin-bottom:12px !important;margin-top:12px !important;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;"><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> The attorney, T. Michael Morgan, wanted to represent families suing Harvard over its medical school <a class="link" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/former-harvard-morgue-manager-and-wife-sentenced-trafficking-stolen-human-remains?utm_source=the-redline.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=morgan-morgan-s-ai-blunder&_bhlid=0328086c1055ad4d12d87f6358a3d2308f5ecf15" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>morgue scandal</span></a>. </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> In 2025, a Wyoming federal judge sanctioned Morgan after pretrial motions filed under his name cited eight nonexistent cases. </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> The hallucinated citations came from Morgan & Morgan&#39;s own in-house AI platform, not a public chatbot. </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> The Massachusetts judge said the prior conduct showed a &quot;failure to comply with basic ethical requirements.&quot; </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> The order appears to be the first time a court has denied a lawyer admission to a new case specifically because of AI conduct in a prior, unrelated matter. </p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"><b>Why it matters:</b> Damien Charlotin&#39;s <a class="link" href="https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations/?utm_source=the-redline.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=morgan-morgan-s-ai-blunder&_bhlid=fe3af9b9ea2a10a978c69b2ea8cab8fb975a3484" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>hallucination tracker</span></a> has now logged more than 1,400 examples where courts have flagged AI-generated citations. 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style="background-color:transparent;border-color:#C0C0C0;border-style:solid;border-width:0.75px;padding:12.0px 12.0px 12.0px 12.0px;"><table role="none" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"><span style="color:#fc1919;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:0.8rem;font-weight:700;"><b>TOOLKIT</b></span></p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" valign="top" style="color:#111111;font-weight:700;padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;"><h2 style="color:#111111;font-weight:700;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">Get Buy-In, Compare Vendors, and Make AI Stick (Tools For In-House Teams)</h2></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:20px; " class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" 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It includes an ROI calculator, vendor scorecard, and four adoption checklists. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"></p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> It’s designed to help you: </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:10px;" class="ee"><div style="margin-left:0px;" class="edm_outlooklist"><ul style="font-weight:400;list-style-type:disc;margin-bottom:12px !important;margin-top:12px !important;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;"><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> Get buy-in </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> Compare vendors </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> Plan your rollout </p></li><li class="listItem ultext"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;padding:0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"> Avoid false starts<br></p></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"></p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 0px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> It was edited by two in-house lawyers: Trent Skanes and Annemarie Weiss. 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