For a lawyer, not doing the job one has been paid for is not just incompetence, it's considered malpractice. In this case, the original malpractice of failing

For a lawyer, not doing the job one has been paid for is not just incompetence, it's considered malpractice. In this case, the original malpractice of failing to check the falsified cites was compounded by submitting falsified opinions to the court (in support of the falsified cites), which is fraud and would be criminal in most states. It's blatantly obvious that he used ChatGPT to generate falsified opinions to try and cover up his original fuck-up after traditional means of verification (i.e., using a legal database like LexisNexis or Westlaw) failed to substantiate any of the ChatGPT cites he originally submitted. In most states, this lawyer would be disbarred, or at the very least suspended for many months, for this sort of conduct. This lawyer should consider himself lucky that the court hasn't yet entertained referring this case to the NY DOJ for criminal prosecution.