NEW YORK — The meteoric rise of ChatGPT is shaking up multiple industries — including law, as one attorney recently found out.
Roberto Mata sued Avianca Airlines for injuries he says he sustained from a serving cart while on the airline in 2019, claiming negligence by an employee. Steven Schwartz, an attorney with Levidow, Levidow & Oberman and licensed in New York for over three decades, handled Mata's representation. But at least six of the submitted cases by Schwartz as research for a brief "appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations," said Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York in an order.wrote in a May 4 orderAmong the purported cases: Varghese v. China South Airlines, Martinez v. Delta Airlines, Shaboon v. EgyptAir, Petersen v. Iran Air, Miller v. United Airlines, and Estate of Durden v.
Schwartz was ordered to show cause why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for the use of a false and fraudulent notarization," in an affidavit filed on April 25. Schwart's affidavit Wednesday contained screenshots of the attorney appearing to confirm the authenticity of the case with ChatGPT.