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What are the real-world consequences of AI citation hallucinations?
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- What happens when lawyers rely on AI citations that turn out false?
- Do solo practitioners face different sanction outcomes than large law firms?
- Do solo lawyers face different citation hallucination risks than large firms?
- Why might opposing counsel catch small firm errors more often?
- How much do existing legal AI tools actually hallucinate in practice?
- How many AI-assisted filings does each firm size actually produce?
- What percentage of AI hallucination cases result in actual court sanctions?
- Does speed improvement from AI assistants carry over to billable legal work?
- Can GenAI help with legal work if designed with audit trails?
- How do different legal AI tools compare in accuracy across case eras?
- What upstream work takes lawyers most time in fact verification?
- Why do lawyers need provenance tracking more than other professions?
- What standard of intent or bad faith triggers Rule 11 sanctions for citations?