FL 11th Circuit (Miami-Dade): Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade) Administrative Order…
Chief Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan · Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida (Miami-Dade County)
Verified April 27, 2026
- Citation
- Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade) Administrative Order AO 26-04: Use of Generative AI in Court Filings
- Order date
- January 15, 2026
Summary
Any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any generative AI tool in the preparation of a pleading, motion, memorandum, response, proposed order, or other court record must disclose such use on the face of the filing.
What does the order require?
- Any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any generative AI tool in the preparation of a pleading, motion, memorandum, response, proposed order, or other court record must disclose such use on the face of the filing.
- Required certification language: 'Generative artificial intelligence was used in the preparation of this filing. The undersigned certifies that all factual assertions, legal authority, and citations have been independently reviewed and verified for accuracy and accepts full responsibility for the contents of this filing.'
- Submission of fictitious, fabricated, or hallucinated legal authority, statutes, quotations, or facts is prohibited; reliance on AI-generated citations without independent verification is also prohibited.
- Sanctions for noncompliance include striking the filing, denial of relief, monetary sanctions, contempt, and referral to The Florida Bar.
Practice areas: state civil, state criminal, state family, state probate
What the order requires
Chief Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan of Florida’s Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade County) issued Administrative Order AO 26-04 on January 15, 2026. The order applies to “attorneys and self-represented litigants appearing before the Circuit and County Courts of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit” and imposes a disclosure-and-certification regime:
- Disclosure on the face of the filing. Any use of generative AI in preparing a pleading, motion, memorandum, response, proposed order, or other court record must be disclosed on the face of the filing.
- Mandatory certification language. The order prescribes specific certification language affirming that all factual assertions, legal authority, and citations have been independently reviewed and verified.
- Prohibition on fabricated authority. The order expressly prohibits submission of fictitious, fabricated, or hallucinated legal authority, statutes, quotations, or facts, as well as reliance on AI-generated citations without independent verification.
- Sanctions toolkit. Available sanctions include striking the filing, denying relief, monetary sanctions, contempt, and referral to The Florida Bar.
Practitioner workflow
Miami-Dade is one of the largest civil dockets in the United States. Firms with any Eleventh Circuit matters (general civil, family, probate, county-court collections) need disclosure-and-certification language in every brief template, used or not. Because the certification language is prescribed verbatim, firms should use the order’s exact wording rather than substituting their own.
Florida bar discipline runs in parallel with the order’s enforcement: a violation that produces a hallucinated citation can trigger both court sanctions under AO 26-04 and a Florida Bar referral. See Florida Bar Ethics Op. 24-1 for the bar-side framework.
Scope
Eleventh Judicial Circuit only (Miami-Dade County, Circuit and County Courts). For practice in adjacent circuits (Broward, 17th; Palm Beach, 15th), each circuit has its own administrative order with broadly similar requirements but different prescribed language; see those entries.
Primary source
AO 26-04 (HTML): https://www.jud11.flcourts.org/docs/ao-html/1b10ef43-b414-40e5-88d7-401f46d0a081.html