Key takeaways:

Bel Air lawyer Adam Hyman referred to Attorney Grievance Commission.

Submitted divorce brief with AI-generated fake cases and misquotes.

Court cited failure to verify citations and lack of competent representation.

Case marks Maryland appellate courts’ first dealing with AI misuse in legal filings.

The Appellate Court of Maryland this week referred Bel Air lawyer Adam Hyman to the Attorney Grievance Commission after he was found to have cited fake cases in a brief generated with artificial intelligence .

Hyman, representing a woman in a divorce case, submitted a brief that his law clerk prepared using ChatGPT . Hyman asked the clerk — a law school graduate but not a licensed attorney — if she verified the citations, but he did not check them himself.

The brief w

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