Lawyers Keep Getting Sanctioned for AI Hallucinations. The Fines Are Still Too Small.

The enforcement architecture courts have built around AI hallucinations is, structurally, a fee schedule. Individual penalties — even record-setting ones like the San Diego case ^[2] — are calibrated to the severity of a single violation, not to the aggregate advantage a firm gains by using unverified AI output at scale. Oregon's approach of charging $500 per fabricated citation and $1,000 per fabricated quotation makes the logic explicit: , not a disqualifying one. A firm that generates ten briefs with AI assistance…