Many attendees reported encountering partners who do not know their Westlaw or Lexis passwords, raising questions about how firms enable partner access to underlying sources in briefs. Law firm drafting has long relied on partner guidance and associate writing, with a senior associate performing an initial pass and a partner providing supervisory review. Citation tools like Shepard’s or KeyCite are used during drafting, but the timing and scope of supervising attorney review are unclear. AI-enabled drafting can introduce fabricated quotes, misstated facts, and invented citations to nonexistent cases, and errors that previously could be corrected via errata now persist because AI-generated content can change facts. AI grammar-checking and tools like Microsoft Copilot can further expose these process weaknesses by allowing altered or incorrect outputs to pass through review gaps.
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