List the authorities in a brief for the lawyer to verify before filing
Key facts
- Human involvement
- RedLawyer-led
- How AI is used
- Extract every case, statute, and rule citation as it appears in the draft, with the page, and leave the verification column blank. Do not mark a citation as correct and do not add a case.
- What the lawyer must review
- Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b) provides that an attorney who presents a paper to the court certifies, after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, that the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law. A citation the lawyer has not checked cannot support that certification. ABA Formal Opinion 512 (29 July 2024) warns that a generative tool can produce citations that are not real and that the lawyer must check the output. The lawyer compares each citation with the reporter, the official code, or the court rule. The tool does not perform that comparison and does not declare a result.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Supporting preparation only. Potential support includes organising research leads and extracting and organising information. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. The tool writes nothing into the document. Substantive advice, judgement and any restricted content remain with the responsible human. |
| Lawyer | Perform the substantive analysis and decisions. Independently check any permitted supporting work and approve the exact output for its intended use. |
Checklist
- Open each relied-on authority independently. Confirm its existence, current status, proposition and any quotation or pinpoint reference.
- Check the current court or regulator requirements, prescribed form and attachments for the intended document and filing.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.