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How to check AI-generated legal citations before you file

Step-by-step help for confirming that every AI-assisted citation exists, supports the point, is still good law and meets your court's rules on AI.

Follow a repeatable checking routine before filing and know where automated checkers help and stop.

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How to check AI citations before filing: a step-by-step routine

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A step-by-step routine for checking AI-generated legal citations before a filing: existence, support, current status, local rules and a record of the check.

Bottom line: Treat every AI citation as unverified until you have opened the source yourself. Confirm the case exists, confirm the quoted words and the holding appear in it, check it is still good law, then check your court's AI rules. Automated checkers speed this up but do not replace it.

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What is CaseRead: AI legal research with a built-in citation check

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What CaseRead is, what it does for attorneys and paralegals, where its law comes from, who may sign up and what it is not, read from its own pages.

Bottom line: CaseRead is a web service for AI legal research and drafting aimed at solo attorneys and small firms. It answers with cited sources, checks the citations in a draft with its Hallucination Shield and edits Word files. It is not a law firm and gives no legal advice.