{
  "slug": "signed-filings-rule-11",
  "title": "A lawyer's signature is a certification. Courts are finding out what it is worth.",
  "summary": "More than a thousand court cases now involve AI fabricated citations. Rule 11 already demands a human certification. E-filing quietly turned it into a login.",
  "lede": "More than a thousand court cases worldwide now involve generative AI producing fabricated citations that reached a judge. Rule 11 has required a human certification on every filing for decades. The gap is that electronic filing turned that certification into a login, and a login certifies nothing about whether anyone read the document.",
  "date": "2026-09-16",
  "reading_time": "16 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": [
    "Rule 11",
    "AI hallucination sanctions",
    "court filings",
    "e-filing",
    "legal AI",
    "attorney certification",
    "fabricated citations"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Signed%20Filings%20Rule%2011/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/signed-filings-rule-11.html",
  "wordcount": 4279,
  "related": [
    "approval-theater",
    "esignature-proves-the-mailbox",
    "agent-identity-legal"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}