What the New York courts have established is an enforcement model that bypasses any need for new AI-specific legislation: existing professional responsibility rules, applied to the attorney who signed the document, are sufficient to impose real costs. Suffolk County Justice Linda Kevins made this structural choice explicit in Cassata v Michael Macrina Architect, P.C., where the court included a sanctions chart for AI-related errors as a practical guide — effectively codifying a graduated penalty schedule for AI misconduct without waiting for a rule amendment.