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N.D. Texas Rule 7.2(f): the page-one heading, and why silence is itself a certification

Q: N.D. Texas Rule 7.2(f): the page-one heading, and why silence is itself a certification

The Northern District of Texas is where disclosure still survives, and it is the sharpest version of it in the country. Local Civil Rule 7.2(f), in force since September 2, 2025, requires a brief prepared using generative AI to say so on the first page under the heading “Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” The part most lawyers miss is subsection (f)(3): filing without that heading is an affirmative certification that no part of the brief was AI-prepared. This is the one court where getting it wrong by omission is itself a false certification. Your receipt names the declared tool, and the heading and disclosure generate with it.

Where this stands today

The Northern District of Texas is where disclosure still survives, and it is the sharpest version of it in the country. Local Civil Rule 7.2(f), in force since September 2, 2025, requires a brief prepared using generative AI to say so on the first page under the heading “Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” The part most lawyers miss is subsection (f)(3): filing without that heading is an affirmative certification that no part of the brief was AI-prepared.

The words that matter

“A brief prepared using generative artificial intelligence must disclose this fact on the first page under the heading ‘Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence.’”

What a record gives you

This is the one court where getting it wrong by omission is itself a false certification. Your receipt names the declared tool, and the heading and disclosure generate with it.

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Sources

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, Local Civil Rule 7.2(f)
Effective 2 September 2025, adopted by all judges of the district. A brief filed without the disclosure certifies that no part of it was prepared using generative AI.

Checked 2 September 2026. Rules change: the authority itself governs, and this page is not legal advice.

When it is challenged

Opposing counsel looks at a sealed record and says: so what. What you say back →, in evidence-law terms, with the certification template.