The South Carolina man charged with using his father’s name to pose as an attorney for real clients in multiple Upstate courts might have used artificial intelligence to write his filings.
In a contempt hearing this week, Oconee County Probate Court Judge Danny Singleton said the wording of a document Nathan Chambers filed in his court indicates he may have used AI technology.
The seven-page motion that raised the judge’s eyebrow was on behalf of Jason Boyle, a Seneca man who was held in contempt himself for giving legal advice to his fiancée in a yearslong probate case.
The motion, split into a “memorandum in support of motion for reconsideration” and a “emergency motion for reconsideration,” made arguments and cited case law, but was phrased as if it were an order from a judge.
Boyle’s fiancée Dorothy Pierce told The Post and Courier in an interview she paid Chambers $14,000 up front to take on her and Boyle’s cases, then later paid another $2,500.
Chambers, still in custody on charges of impersonating a lawyer in both Oconee and Greenville counties, declined to testify about the AI tech but apologized to the court.
“I never meant to cause the court any trouble,” Chambers said. “As I’ve watched my father and sister throughout my entire life practice law and I watched my life go down the drain, I kind of lost my mind a little bit.”
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