Legal Insights by SOLIS Partners / Legal Notes by SOLIS Partners

In 2023, in the case of Mata v. Avianca, Inc., lawyers attached to the lawsuit materials with fictitious court decisions generated by ChatGPT. The judge found inconsistencies, rejected the documents and fined the lawyers. Similar stories have been repeated with Google Bard.

What is important for practice:

Verification of all materials created using AI is mandatory.

👉 Implement the Human-in-the-Loop principle.

Clients need to be told that AI is a tool, not a source of truth.

Conclusion: AI speeds up the work, but does not release the lawyer from responsibility.

, Read more:

https://www.theverge.com/policy/677373/lawyers-chatgpt-hallucinations-ai

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/03/attorneys-court-ai-hallucinations-judges/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ny-judge-criticizes-law-firm-citing-chatgpt-attorney-fee-bid-2024-02-22/