Actual Intelligence Required: AI Hallucinations, Professional Responsibility, and the Practice of Law

Join Buffalo and Long Island Litigation Attorneys Michael Williams and Patrice Melville for an insightful webinar exploring the opportunities—and risks—of using artificial intelligence in the legal profession. Clients are increasingly demanding that lawyers use AI to provide faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective legal services—but how much confidence should you place in a machine that is guessing?

In a preregistered recent study of more than 200 legal research queries, Lexis+ AI produced accurate answers only 65% of the time and hallucinated in 17% of its responses, while Westlaw AI-Assisted Research was accurate only 42% of the time and hallucinated in 33% of its responses. This webinar goes beyond the familiar warning to “check your citations” to explore the less obvious ways AI can produce plausible but legally defective analysis, the professional-responsibility consequences—including sanctions—of relying upon it, the risks of confidential-data disclosure and bias, and the practical problem of verifying everyone's AI-assisted work—including your own, your opponent's, and potentially even the courts' decisions.

Attendees will leave with a better understanding of where AI can safely improve efficiency, where it can quietly undermine the client's interests, and why the most important safeguard remains the one technology cannot provide: learned counsel's actual intelligence.

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