(Originally published by ABA Journal on November 21, 2024.)

We’ve all seen the headlines about AI-boosted lawyers run amok. Since ChatGPT landed, phantom cases have cropped up in court filings around the country. Judges have responded, meting out sanctions, excoriating counsel, and—more recently—even issuing a flurry of new orders and rules that regulate how litigants can use new AI-based technologies.

But when it comes to lawyers’ use of AI, the solution is not bespoke new rules. Instead, as the ABA recently reminded us, it’s reliance on the decades-old regulatory architecture of attorney accountability.

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