David Kluft

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#LegalEthics Tidbit: After I’m sanctioned for hiring an online freelancer who misused #AI, is anything going to happen to the freelancer?
A TX lawyer hired a NY lawyer to draft a brief through one of those online freelance platforms. The NY lawyer showed the care and diligence that you would expect from an online stranger 2,000 miles away who is trying to make a buck – none. The NY lawyer typed th

4 views #LegalEthics Tidbit: After I’m sanctioned for hiring an online freelancer who misused #AI, is anything going to happen to the freelancer? A TX lawyer hired a NY lawyer to draft a brief through one of those online freelance platforms. The NY lawyer showed the care and diligence that you would expect from an online stranger 2,000 miles away who is trying to make a buck – none. The NY lawyer typed th

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Are pinpoint citations just unnecessary “legalese”?

An IL attorney submitted a brief in support of an administrative appeal that contained false statutory quotations and hallucinated case citations created by #AI misuse. Among other problems, the lawyer also failed to include pinpoint citations to the real cases he cited. The Court issued a show cause order to explain the ha

2 views #LegalEthics Tidbit: Are pinpoint citations just unnecessary “legalese”? An IL attorney submitted a brief in support of an administrative appeal that contained false statutory quotations and hallucinated case citations created by #AI misuse. Among other problems, the lawyer also failed to include pinpoint citations to the real cases he cited. The Court issued a show cause order to explain the ha

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can a prosecutor call the defendant’s former defense counsel to testify about his criminal history?
In 2001, an IN defense lawyer represented a man who was convicted of armed robbery. Decades later, the same defendant was on trial for drug charges. The prosecutor called the defense lawyer as a witness during the “habitual offender” phase of the trial, to testify about the deca

1 views #LegalEthics Tidbit: Can a prosecutor call the defendant’s former defense counsel to testify about his criminal history? In 2001, an IN defense lawyer represented a man who was convicted of armed robbery. Decades later, the same defendant was on trial for drug charges. The prosecutor called the defense lawyer as a witness during the “habitual offender” phase of the trial, to testify about the deca

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Avg engagement / post

0.6%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: #LegalEthics Tidbit: After I’m sanctioned for hiring an online f · 4 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

85.7 / week

A very active account — posts many times a day.

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Mostly text

Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.

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Follows 185 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

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🔥 Top post #LegalEthics Tidbit: After I’m sanctioned for hiring an online freelancer who misused #AI, is anything going to happen to the freelancer? A TX lawyer hired a NY lawyer to draft a brief through one of those online freelance platforms. The NY lawyer showed the care and diligence t… ★ 4

... The lawyer was fined $15,000 and referred to disciplinary authorities. The Court also noted that the lawyer badly needed CLE classes, it didn’t have the authority to order it as a sanction. ★ 1 ... instead that he “wanted to completely avoid legalese and speak directly to this Court.” The Appellate Court responded: “We will speak directly to him: this is unacceptable. [The attorney’s] response should have included scrupulously ac… ... pinpoint citation for the real cases. In response to the show cause order, the attorney “frustratingly” submitted a response with more statutory hallucinations. He claimed ChatGPT wrote his briefs and that he “cross-referenced” every c…

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Are pinpoint citations just unnecessary “legalese”? An IL attorney submitted a brief in support of an administrative appeal that contained false statutory quotations and hallucinated case citations created by #AI mis… ★ 2 ... state behind its evidence in a manner that risks supplanting the jury’s independent evaluation.” However, a new trial was not granted because the lawyer’s testimony was cumulative of the other independently sufficient evidence of the … ... time, the former defense counsel had switched sides and was actually a prosecutor in the same office currently prosecuting the defendant. The defendant was convicted and moved for a new trial, alleging that this was prosecutorial mis…

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can a prosecutor call the defendant’s former defense counsel to testify about his criminal history? In 2001, an IN defense lawyer represented a man who was convicted of armed robbery. Decades later, the same defendant … ★ 1 ... subpoena her, she sent them a “cease and desist” email. Throughout this back and forth, her theory appears to have been that because she had already unilaterally decided she had done nothing wrong, any attempt even to investigate her w… ... hallucinated results to the TX lawyer, who didn’t bother to verify the citations. The TX lawyer was sanctioned $1,500 and ordered to report the NY lawyer to the NY Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) The NY lawyer demonstrated a simi… ... unprovable by other evidence.” Here, the Court doubted that the lawyer’s interaction with the Sheriff would be terribly relevant to future proceedings about the conduct of his client and, even if they were, there was other evidence of … ... that the lawyer had “inserted himself into the case between the parties when he contacted the [Sheriff and] attempted to advise law enforcement as to legal conclusions,” thus making “himself a witness.” The GA Ct. of Appeals reversed b…

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On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 2 views per post.

📤Posts about 85.7× per week.

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89%

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Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
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About

Assistant Bar Counsel, Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers a/k/a #legalethics attorney. I post #LegalEthics tidbits and pictures of my cat. Boston/Cambridge, MA Brown '90, Temple MFA '97, BU Law '03 More about me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkluft/ 🏳️‍⚧️