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A Colorado lawyer has been suspended from the bar and fired from his law firm after admitting to using artificial intelligence to file court cases.
Zachariah Crabill was fired from Colorado Springs law firm and barred from court in November 2023 after he confessed to a judge that he used ChatGPT to submit a motion in civil court.
He was suspended for one year and one day, with 90 days to be served and the remainder to be stayed upon Crabill’s successful completion of a two-year period of probation, with conditions.
According to the court order, the suspended attorney had been hired in April 2023 to prepare a motion to set aside judgment in a client’s civil case.
Zachariah Crabill was fired from Colorado Springs law firm and barred from court in November 2023 after he confessed to a judge that he used ChatGPT to submit a motion in civil court
Crabill, who later said he had never drafted such a motion and was 'overwhelmed' with his case load, ended up deciding to use ChatGPT to prepare the motion.
He said: 'Stressed out to the max. And, you know, the legal profession is highly stressful because a lot is at stake on each of these cases.
'And I had just been exposed to the idea of ChatGPT. And I'm trying to save him money, trying to not eat through his entire
