Legal Industry Needs Auditor-Style AI Oversight

AI hallucinations in legal filings have surged, with over 1,200 reported incidents since 2023. Recent cases include a pro se litigant flooding courts with ChatGPT-generated documents containing fake citations, and an attorney using a reputable legal AI tool that fabricated quotes from real sources. The legal industry should borrow from accounting's response to the Enron and WorldCom scandals, which produced Sarbanes-Oxley and independent auditing standards. Law firms need robust internal review processes, ongoing staff training, and potentially independent audit functions to catch AI errors before courts or clients do.