Joshua Hostilo

The process for validating legal case law citations is quite interesting - said no one ever! At least that's what I thought until I read this post by Bob Ambrogi on the LawSites blog, where Bob discusses Filevine's release of its "case law citator and hallucination checker." Until I read the post (and having been a deal lawyer all my professional life, i.e., a lawyer whose work in his more senior years of practice didn't necessitate checking case citations), I hadn't appreciated the nuances of case law citation technology and how often the legacy tech-based systems for citation checking disagree with one another even today (yikes). Do read Bob's entire post; it's rich with important detail and in every respect well reported. From Bob's post: "The legal technology company Filevine has launched an AI-native citator and a companion brief-checking tool inside LOIS, its Legal Operating Intelligence System AI platform, that its CEO says perform as well as or better than the leading legal citators from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters. "The citator has two core features. One checks a filed or draft brief for hallucinated citations, altered quotations, and mischaracterized authority. The other checks whether a proposition is still good law by letting a lawyer highlight a specific passage in an opinion and find out whether later courts have undercut the holding expressed in the passage." Here's the link to the post: lawnext.com/2026/09/filevine… #legaltechnology #legaltech @filevine