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Ontario’s legal regulator has suspended a lawyer for six months after a judge busted her in open court for using AI hallucinated material in a hearing about family and estate law. The decision by the discipline tribunal of the Law Society of Ontario marks the first time a Canadian law society has gone beyond a reprimand to actually suspend a lawyer’s licence for abusing artificial intelligence in court submissions, according to Tom Macintosh Zheng, a Toronto lawyer who tracks the issue. It is a growing problem that remains as murky and controversial in the lawyer discipline context as...