Author: [email protected]

Contributing Authors: Gary Stahl, Alex Farmer, and Donald Gross. Editor: Brian McGovern As courts shifted to digital dockets and mandatory e-filing, they left litigants with no direct path to a judge outside systems judicial officials have acknowledged are outdated, heavily targeted and dependent on credentialed access vulnerable to misuse. MARCH 31, 2026 Washington, D.C. — The legal system has spent the past two years confronting one visible technology problem in court filings: lawyers submitting briefs with invented authorities generated by artificial intelligence tools. Judges could see those filings, identify the errors, and sanction the lawyers responsible. The record, however flawed, still…