Cook County, Ill. (Law): Standing Order on Jury Trials, AI Provision (Hon. Gerald V. Clea…
Hon. Gerald V. Cleary III · Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Law Division, Trial Section, Courtroom 2303
Verified May 8, 2026
- Citation
- Standing Order on Jury Trials, AI Provision (Hon. Gerald V. Cleary III, Cook County Law Division)
- Order date
- February 14, 2024
Summary
A party submitting any document, motion, brief or memoranda to the Court must disclose in writing on the submitted document that AI was used in the creation of the document.
What does the order require?
- A party submitting any document, motion, brief or memoranda to the Court must disclose in writing on the submitted document that AI was used in the creation of the document.
- The disclosing party must verify the existence and accuracy of any authority cited in the AI-prepared document.
- Disclosure is on the document itself (not a separate certificate).
- Failure to comply may result in sanctions.
Practice areas: state civil
What the rule requires
Judge Cleary’s Standing Order on Jury Trials (Law Division Courtroom 2303) requires that any document, motion, brief, or memoranda submitted to the court disclose in writing on the document itself that AI was used in its creation. The party must also verify the existence and accuracy of any authority cited in the AI-prepared document.
The rule’s scope is “AI” without a “generative” qualifier, sweeping any AI-assisted drafting. The disclosure mechanism is on-document, not a separate certificate, similar to Horan’s caption-disclosure approach in Calendar 9. Cleary’s rule combines disclosure with explicit verification of cited authority, which Horan’s rule does not (Horan focuses on disclosure alone).
R&G data corrections
R&G dates this entry 2024-02-13; the PDF filename and metadata are dated 2024-02-14. R&G is off by one day. R&G also labels the judge simply “Cleary”; the full name is Hon. Gerald V. Cleary III, presiding over Courtroom 2303 in the Law Division Trial Section.
Quotable language
“A party submitting any document, motion, brief or memoranda to the Court must disclose in writing on the submitted document that AI was used in the creation of the document and that the party has verified the existence and accuracy of any authority cited.”
Primary source
Cook County Law Division Standing Order PDF (Hon. Gerald V. Cleary III), ocj-web-files