Should Legal Writing Professors Continue to Teach Traditional Legal Citation Rules for Parentheticals Despite the Increased Usage of (Cleaned Up) Parentheticals?
I transitioned into teaching Legal Writing in 2023. Early in my first semester, I discussed the now well-known case of Mata v. Avianca, Inc. wherein counsel was sanctioned for filing a pleading created by ChatGPT and which contained citations to non-existent cases.[1] The case provided a good example of the importance of accurate legal citations.