N.D. Cal. judges' AI requirements: lead trial counsel certification (Judges Lee and Martínez-Olguín) and AI-drafted identification (Magistrate Judge Kang)
Fill-in AI wording for three Northern District of California chambers: the lead trial counsel verification certificate required by Judges Eumi K. Lee and Araceli Martínez-Olguín, and Magistrate Judge Kang's identification of AI-drafted documents.
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Kind
Court document A document filed or served in a court or tribunal.
Version
1
Where it applies
United States, United States federal courts, California
AI use
Green The tool writes the first draft inside a template you have already tested. You check it. Without that test, first drafting starts at Yellow.
Source
Written for this library
Status
Maintained. Checked on 7 November 2026 against the 4 authorities it cites, for United States, United States federal courts and California.
When to use it
Use in civil cases before Judge Lee or Judge Martínez-Olguín (any submission containing AI-generated content) or Magistrate Judge Kang (any brief, pleading or other document whose text was created or drafted with any use of an AI tool). Magistrate Judges Cisneros and van Keulen and Judge Thompson require no separate filing statement.
How to use this precedent
Check that it fits the matter: read “When to use it” and the places it applies to.
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Adapt it to the matter, filling in each placeholder shown in [square brackets].
Use AI only as far as the Green level allows. “How AI may be used” says what AI may and must not do.
Before it goes out, a lawyer checks it against current law and each point under “The lawyer checks”.
How AI may be used
A tool may lay out the judge's statement and fill in facts the signer gives it. The signer decides what to say about the AI use and makes the checks the statement describes.
AI may
Insert the tool name, version and uses the signer has recorded
Insert only a version of the statement that the rule or order provides and that matches the signer's account of AI use
Check that the statement sits where the rule or order says it must
AI must not
Must not state that citations, quotations or facts were checked; only the signer can say that after doing it
Must not describe the AI use more narrowly than the file record shows
Must not put prompts, privileged material or confidential client information in the statement
The lawyer checks
The current judge's rule or order has been opened on the court's own site and matches the words used
Every citation and quotation was checked by a person against an official or recognised source
The statement is placed and signed as the rule requires, by the person the rule names
Records of prompts submitted to generative AI tools are kept (Lee, Martínez-Olguín) and records identifying AI-drafted text are kept (Kang)