Overview
- Andrew Dietderich apologized in a Saturday letter dated April 18 to Chief Judge Martin Glenn, withdrew the flawed April 9 emergency motion, and filed a corrected version.
- Boies Schiller Flexner identified roughly 40 problems, including invented case citations, quotations that do not exist, and passages that misstate provisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
- The firm said its AI rules and citation checks were not followed, launched an internal review, and re-reviewed other filings in the matter to confirm no similar AI-related errors.
- The mistakes appeared in Chapter 15 proceedings where British Virgin Islands liquidators seek U.S. recognition to pursue Prince Group assets tied by prosecutors to forced labor sites and large fraud, raising stakes for accuracy and timing.
- Researchers have recorded more than 1,300 AI hallucination incidents in court papers worldwide, and recent cases show judges sanction lawyers who submit unverified AI output, prompting tighter training and verification at firms.