Artificial Intelligence
Elite Wall Street law firm apologizes for error-laden motion created by AI
A prestigious Wall Street law firm apologized to a federal judge for submitting court papers filled with errors created by artificial intelligence. (Photo by natatravel/Getty Images)
A prestigious Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for filing a motion filled with errors created by artificial intelligence.
The errors, which included “hallucinations” that fabricated case citations, were part of a recent motion in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan in New York City filed by attorneys for Sullivan & Cromwell, the New York Times reports.
They were discovered by lawyers from an opposing firm.
Andrew Dietderich, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, reported the errors in a letter to Chief Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn on April 18.
“We deeply regret that this has occurred,” Dietderich wrote.
According to the New York Times, the firm provided a ledger of the errors, which spanned three pages and totaled around three dozen. Some of them involved the citation of seemingly imagined passages from real cases. Others were clerical errors that the firm said were not AI-related.
Sullivan & Cromwell is one of the oldest and most prestigious firms in the country, according to the New York Times. The firm is representing President Donald Trump in several appeals, including his criminal conviction in 2024 related to a hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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