Why so eager to end someone's career? He did a lazy/stupid thing. People do far worse things.
The client may want to sue them and seek damages or something and that'd be fair but I don't think their career should end. That's harsh.
The client may want to sue them and seek damages or something and that'd be fair but I don't think their career should end. That's harsh.
Because certain careers, e.g. lawyers, surgeons, and law enforcement give their practitioners the ability to make or break their clients, potentially killing them or ruining them financially and/or socially. Such professions must, for reasons of social sanity, be held to higher standards than someone who's career is, e.g., writing web apps or serving coffee.
It's not equivalent to that. Nobody lost their leg over this.
These twits should be disbarred, and without hesitation.
This presupposes that the use of ChatGPT is the reason the case was lost. In this case, the judge found the mistake, called it out, and fined the lawyers for their carelessness. It doesn't necessarily follow that p1) ChatGPT was used, p2) Case was lost, c) Case would have been won if ChatGPT was not used.
Or to waste a lot of their clients money on cases that they should have known could not be won from the outset, as is the case here.
Stupid mistakes are usually not career ending, fraud and cover up usually is.