Did you write this? Why AI Hallucinates and How Texas Litigators Can Stay Safe(ish)

Capital Area Paralegal Association

This is CAPA’s monthly membership meeting and CLE. It will be a one hour presentation.

Session Agenda: Non-agenda.docx

Learning Objectives:

– Examination of the risks associated with using generative AI to prepare pleadings, discovery responses, deposition summaries, and motions in civil litigation.
– Application of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, including Rules 13 (Signing of Pleadings), 192 (Permissible Discovery), and 215 (Abuse of Discovery; Sanctions), along with Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct 3.03 (Candor Toward the Tribunal).
– Attorney obligations to verify AI-generated factual assertions, legal authorities, quotations, and discovery summaries, and potential consequences of submitting inaccurate or fabricated information to the court.

CLE Hours = 1 Legal Ethics