Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.
I… don’t even. I lack the words.
Michael Cohen was working for Trump precisely because he couldn’t get a proper lawyer job elsewhere. Good lawyers will steer clear of a client that will ask them to commit crimes for them.
I think this is fairly reductive. I work in a related industry. Often it’s the best lawyers working for the shadier clients, for obvious reasons.
That being said, the best lawyers avoid clients who have a bad habit of not paying.