MANDEL: Toronto lawyer accused of using AI to argue case
Mary Hyun-Sook Lee (aka Jisuh Lee) is facing a misconduct proceeding by the Law Society Tribunal in addition to criminal contempt of court hearing
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For what appears to be the first time in Ontario, a Toronto lawyer could be in deep trouble over her alleged use of artificial intelligence to argue a case before the Ontario Superior Court.
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Mary Hyun-Sook Lee (aka Jisuh Lee) is now facing a misconduct proceeding by the Law Society Tribunal in addition to criminal contempt of court proceedings over allegations she used ChatGPT to prepare a court filing and then lied to the judge about it.
In a case that made headlines in the legal community and beyond last May, the 30-year veteran was before Justice Fred Myers arguing an estates case when the judge noticed her written materials rested on past decisions where the hyperlinks took him to non-existent cases or to ones that dealt with a completely different area of law.
He suspected a wonky AI program was at fault for the fake cases and........
