I was let go this morning because a lengthy motion I drafted recently had a bad citation. Mind you in the last few months the firm had hopped on the Westland AI train. Up until the this point the AI had always given me good citations and cases and I would normally check all the cases to make sure they were correct. However, this time I was swamped already and got told to draft this motion which required a lot of research and citation so since I was already pressed for time and the AI has been giving me good results I didn’t check. All the other citation and case law it spat out to me ended up being good but this one citation was for a case that didn’t exist and the AI completely made up and it made it into the motion. Should I have checked? Yes I should have checked so that part is on me. Sent it to my attorney for review and he caught the mistake and we changed before it ever got filed but for some reason that caused an uproar with every other attorney and now I’m fired for an AI system error for a document that got corrected before any harm was ever done.