{"id":5783,"date":"2025-05-14T05:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ellis-george-and-kl-gates-ordered-to-pay-31000-after-using-ai-to-write-brief-in-insurance-case\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T05:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:22:33","slug":"ellis-george-and-kl-gates-ordered-to-pay-31000-after-using-ai-to-write-brief-in-insurance-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ellis-george-and-kl-gates-ordered-to-pay-31000-after-using-ai-to-write-brief-in-insurance-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis George and K&#038;L Gates Ordered to Pay $31,000 After Using AI to Write Brief in Insurance Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Law firms Ellis George and K&amp;L Gates were last Tuesday ordered to pay $31,000 to the defense in a case filed against State Farm General Insurance Co. for submitting a &#8220;bogus&#8221; plaintiff&#8217;s briefing written with artificial intelligence products, which reportedly cited &#8220;phony&#8221; judicial opinions and fabricated authorities. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Michael R. Wilner, former U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Central District of California and an arbitrator and mediator for Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS), was appointed in January as a special master in the case, captioned <i>Lacey v. State Farm<\/i>, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law firms Ellis George and K&amp;L Gates were last Tuesday ordered to pay $31,000 to the defense in a case filed against State Farm General Insurance Co. for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,1793,1609,2641,1566,1527,510,5925],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-case","tag-ellis","tag-gates","tag-george","tag-insurance","tag-ordered","tag-pay","tag-write"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}