---
title: "Generative-AI filing certification worksheet"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/us-generative-ai-filing-certification"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a5-us-generative-ai-filing-certification"
area_id: "A5"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "red"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A5-B8-1", "A5-B8-2", "A5-P20260916-3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/us-generative-ai-filing-certification  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States
- AI level: 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: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 5 authorities it cites, for United States.

## 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](https://ailawframework.com/practice/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/prepare-an-ai-use-disclosure-statement-for-a-federal-court-filing.md)
- [Verify every authority in submissions before filing](https://ailawframework.com/practice/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/verify-every-authority-in-submissions-before-filing.md)
- [Check authorities and evidence before filing submissions](https://ailawframework.com/practice/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/check-authorities-and-evidence-before-filing-submissions.md)

## 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

## Authorities

- [Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(a) and (b) (signature; certification of purpose, law and evidentiary support) and 11(d) (discovery papers are outside Rule 11)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11)
- [Judge Nina Y. Wang, District of Colorado, standing order on generative AI in court filings, effective 1 December 2025](https://www.cod.uscourts.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Judges/NYW/NYW_Standing_Order_Regarding_AI_Certification.pdf)
- [Judge Wendy W. Berger, Middle District of Florida, standing order on use of generative AI, dated 2 April 2026](https://www.flmd.uscourts.gov/sites/flmd/files/documents/flmd-berger-standing-order-on-ai.pdf)
- [Judge John D. Love, Eastern District of Texas, standing order on generative AI disclosure, signed 9 April 2025](https://coop.txed.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/judgeFiles/JDL%20Standing%20Order%20on%20AI%204.9.25.pdf)
- [Northern District of Texas, Judge Brantley Starr page (separate AI certification no longer required, in light of local rules)](https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judge/judge-brantley-starr)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/commercial-litigation-and-dispute-resolution/us-generative-ai-filing-certification and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*