Notwithstanding these safeguards, the Firm's protocols were not followed here.
On 9 April 2026 Sullivan & Cromwell filed an emergency motion for provisional relief in the Chapter 15 proceedings of Prince Global Holdings. It carried fabricated case citations, quotations attributed to decisions that do not contain them and authorities that do not exist. Opposing counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner found them. Nine days later Andrew Dietderich, who co-heads the firm's restructuring practice, wrote to Chief Judge Martin Glenn taking personal responsibility, attaching a schedule of dozens of corrections and saying the firm had telephoned the other side to apologise. What makes it worth reading is what the letter says the firm already had in place: comprehensive policies and mandatory training on generative AI, modules that stress the risk of hallucinations and instruct lawyers to "trust nothing and verify everything", and an office manual requiring every AI-generated citation to be independently checked before anything leaves the building. The ordinary citation check did not catch these either. A policy that says the right thing is not a control.
