N.Y. Judge Says AI Train Has Arrived For Lawyers, Imposes $10,000 In Sanctions

( February 6, 2026, 9:09 AM EST) -- RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Artificial intelligence isn’t a train hurtling toward the legal profession, it is one that has already arrived, and attorneys must educate themselves about it, a New York justice said in imposing $1,000 sanctions on each of two attorneys for submitting a brief with nonexistent cases and quotations while ordering the firm to pay $8,000 in fees and costs to the plaintiff firm associated with responding to the issue....

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