This Law360 article examines how experts can successfully use AI in class actions and also details some of the risks.
Recent advances in artificial intelligence are being hailed as potential game-changers by some observers, who suggest the new technology could offer solutions across a range of fields including healthcare, science, finance, and even art and design.
Some of these cutting-edge tools are now making their way into the courtroom, where they could hold promise for helping courts consider new types of evidence previously too cumbersome to analyze. But AI use in litigation also comes with meaningful risks — especially now, with the advent of large language models, as made clear by a few well-publicized stories of attorneys submitting briefs containing AI-generated citations to nonexistent articles.
In this article, coauthors Simone Jones, Eric Mattson and Sudeep Dhanoa of Sidley Austin and Anna Shakotko and Lucia Yanguas of Cornerstone Research examine how experts — and the attorneys who retain them — can successfully use AI in class actions, but also details some of those risks. It concludes by discussing the potential future use of AI in litigation against the backdrop of courts’ evolving views on the admissibility of AI-generated materials.
The article was originally published by Law360 in April 2025.
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