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Generative-AI filing certification worksheet
Worksheet for the lawyer who must certify a federal filing under Rule 11 and under the assigned judge's standing order on generative AI. The lawyer writes the certificate that is filed.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- United States
- AI use
- Red You write the text. The tool writes nothing into the document. Where permitted, it may check, clarify or collect data, and anything it checks or collects is verified.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 5 authorities it cites, for United States.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use before filing a pleading, motion or brief in a district court whose judge requires an AI certificate, and before any filing where counsel needs a record that citations were checked. Do not file the worksheet. File only the certificate the assigned judge's current order requires.
Used for these tasks
- Prepare an AI-use disclosure statement for a Federal Court filing
- Verify every authority in submissions before filing
- Check authorities and evidence before filing submissions
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may extract the assigned judge's order into a checklist and compare the draft's citations to a list the lawyer supplies. The lawyer writes and signs any certificate that is filed.
AI may
- Extract from the assigned judge's standing order the questions the certificate must answer, without drafting the certificate
- List each legal citation in the draft as a line the lawyer still has to open
- Compare the draft against the checklist and mark a missing item, such as the name of the tool or a statement of how it was used
AI must not
- Must not draft, edit or sign the certificate that will be filed
- Must not confirm that a citation is real, or describe what a case holds, unless the lawyer has opened it and marked the proposition
- Must not treat one judge's order as the rule for another judge or as a Federal Rule
The lawyer checks
- The assigned judge's current standing order and the district's local rules have been opened, not a recollection of them
- Every citation in the filing was opened and supports the proposition beside it
- The human who signs is a person who can make the certificate the order requires, including personal review where the order requires it
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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