"Shlomo Klapper, chief executive and founder of the company behind Learned Hand, said it is already being used by court systems in 10 states. We need to build the right tools so courts are equipped to deal with this tsunami," he said. But he described the use of AI to generate rulings as "problematic. Last year, a Los Angeles attorney was fined for submitting a filing full of legal citations that were hallucinated by ChatGPT. Learned Hand, he said, is not meant to replace judges but rather give them more time to actually make decisions rather than sit buried under impossible caseloads.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 19, 2026 20:47 UTC