My friend, Tech-Savvy attorney Joe Kashi says it can’t.

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is all very plausible, he says and seems to be a further extension of legal sanctions against  hallucinatory AI legal behavior.

Alas, there is no abstract of the case, human or otherwise. To this civilian, it boils down to whether an LLM can practice law in the traditional sense. So, should we redefine the practice of law for the LLMs, or make the LLMs respect the current definition of practicing law? It should be obvious to the casual observer which way I lean on the question.

Joe also says says that filing  imaginary citations currently produces more legal malpractice suits than any other single error.