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Civil Litigation

Aug. 20, 2025

In Onlyfans case, Hagens Berman filed AI-generated briefs with fake case citations

Partner Robert Carey blamed the errors on an outside attorney dealing with a family crisis who used AI tools without proper disclosure or review.

Plaintiffs' attorneys at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP are accused of using AI to draft multiple opposition briefs that cited a fake case, misquoted real ones and included language that does not appear in a previous order from the judge, according to opposing counsel.

The alleged hallucinated documents, filed last month by Hagens partner Robert B. Carey in Arizona, were prepared by an attorney outside the firm undergoing a family health crisis, he said in a statement Tuesday...

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