Will AI hold up in court? Attorneys say it’s already changing the practice of law

In 2019 a metal cart rolled down the aisle of an Avianca flight from El Salvador to New York and struck Roberto Mata on the knee. Mata retained two personal injury lawyers to sue the airline, resulting in a case that made legal precedent—but not for a reason Mata or his attorneys would have hoped for. Instead, the two lawyers achieved notoriety in 2023 when the judge in the case fined the pair $5,000 for citing six fictitious cases, invented by artificial intelligence software, in a brief to the court.