LLMMedium
Sullivan & Cromwell Reportedly Filed Emergency Bankruptcy Motion Containing AI-Generated Legal Errors
- Occurred
- Apr 9, 2026
- Published
- Apr 21, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Sullivan & Cromwell reportedly filed an emergency motion in the Chapter 15 bankruptcy case of Prince Global Holdings that contained numerous citation and legal inaccuracies. The firm later acknowledged that some errors were AI hallucinations and that its AI-use and citation-review policies had not been followed. After opposing counsel identified the problems, the firm reportedly undertook a formal remedial response.
Developers
- Generative AI developers
Deployers
- Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Andrew G. Dietderich
- Law firms
- Lawyers
Harmed parties
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
- Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Clients of lawyers
- Insolvency practitioners
- Court-appointed liquidators
- Parties in In re Prince Global Holdings Limited
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI hallucinations in legal filings constitute a notable failure with professional consequences but no mass harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8