Articles by Jereme Lytle on AI hallucination in legal practice: citation gates, the sanctions record, retrieval, and what to ask a vendor before a pilot.https://apodicta.net/en-ushttps://apodicta.net/writing/aba-opinion-512-and-generative-ai/https://apodicta.net/writing/aba-opinion-512-and-generative-ai/What Formal Opinion 512 requires on competence, confidentiality, supervision and fees, what it leaves to the facts, and how a defender office complies.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEthicsEvaluating toolshttps://apodicta.net/writing/body-cam-review-how-long-it-takes/https://apodicta.net/writing/body-cam-review-how-long-it-takes/What the public record says about footage volume and review hours in criminal cases, why keyword search is not review, and what watching per issue means.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTBody camDefender workflowhttps://apodicta.net/writing/how-to-check-an-ai-citation-in-five-minutes/https://apodicta.net/writing/how-to-check-an-ai-citation-in-five-minutes/A procedure you can run before you file: prove the authority exists, prove the passage supports the sentence, then check the quotation word for word.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTVerificationCitation gateshttps://apodicta.net/writing/on-premise-ai-for-law-firms-hardware-and-models/https://apodicta.net/writing/on-premise-ai-for-law-firms-hardware-and-models/What local really means, what an office needs to run a model in its own building, open-weight licenses in plain words, and what leaves with each setup.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTClient dataOn-premisehttps://apodicta.net/writing/what-a-hearing-memo-is/https://apodicta.net/writing/what-a-hearing-memo-is/The pretrial conference memo, the motions memo and the trial-prep memo: what each contains, who writes them today, and where the hours actually go.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDefender workflowHearing memoshttps://apodicta.net/writing/what-deterministic-means-when-a-vendor-says-it/https://apodicta.net/writing/what-deterministic-means-when-a-vendor-says-it/The difference between a deterministic decision layer and a model at temperature zero, what to ask a vendor, and what a reproducible rerun actually proves.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvaluating toolsDeterminismhttps://apodicta.net/writing/what-a-citation-gate-is/https://apodicta.net/writing/what-a-citation-gate-is/A citation gate has to ask two questions, not one: does this authority exist, and does it hold what the sentence attached to it says.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTCitation gatesHallucinationhttps://apodicta.net/writing/the-sanctions-record/https://apodicta.net/writing/the-sanctions-record/What judges have actually ordered when a filing cited cases that do not exist — from a $5,000 penalty in 2023 to reprimand, removal and a bar referral.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTSanctionsCourtshttps://apodicta.net/writing/why-retrieval-does-not-stop-hallucination/https://apodicta.net/writing/why-retrieval-does-not-stop-hallucination/Retrieval changes what a model reads. It does not change the fact that the answer is written afterwards — and the measurements bear that out.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetrievalEvidencehttps://apodicta.net/writing/how-to-evaluate-legal-ai-before-a-pilot/https://apodicta.net/writing/how-to-evaluate-legal-ai-before-a-pilot/Nine questions an office can put to a vendor in one meeting, and the two tests to run on a closed file before anyone signs anything.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTEvaluationPilotshttps://apodicta.net/writing/client-data-and-local-models/https://apodicta.net/writing/client-data-and-local-models/Confidentiality duties, what provider terms actually promise, and why a court in someone else’s case can change how long your prompts are kept.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTConfidentialityOn-premhttps://apodicta.net/writing/hearing-memos-from-the-docket/https://apodicta.net/writing/hearing-memos-from-the-docket/Docket in, memo out, with no one writing a prompt — and a precise account of what the attorney still does, and what the rules say she may not delegate.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTDefender workflowAutonomy