IN FORCE · INDEPENDENT REVIEW REQUIRED

New York Part 161: you must independently review every AI-assisted paper. Where is the evidence?

Where this stands today

New York adopted Part 161, effective June 1, 2026, and it says the opposite of disclosure: lawyers should not be required to tell the court they used AI. What it does require is that you independently review any AI-assisted paper and ensure it contains no fabricated or fictitious authorities. Individual judges may still adopt stricter part rules, so check the part rules of the judge you drew. The proposed Commercial Division Rule 6(e) was never adopted.

The words that matter

the paper must contain “no fabricated or fictitious cases, statutes, or other material”

What a record gives you

Part 161 asks you to have done the work rather than to announce it. The receipt is the evidence that you did, made per filing, at the time.

Regulayer makes the record. Software on your own machine that signs, at the moment you finish, which tool you declared, which checks you ran and who reviewed the work. Your client, your insurer or the court checks it in seconds, free, with no account and no access to a word of your file.

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Sources

New York State Unified Court System, Part 161, Use of Artificial Intelligence Technology
Adopted 25 March 2026, effective 1 June 2026. Disclosure is not required; independent review is.

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.