This webinar explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the legal profession, examining its role in reshaping tasks like legal research, case analysis, and document drafting. It addresses key challenges, including bias, data security, and reliability, while also highlighting judicial responses through case law and regulatory responses. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of AI's potential and be prepared to navigate its growing influence in legal practice.
- Introduction & Overview
- Introduce speaker, set learning objectives, and contextualize AI’s rapid growth in legal practice
- Core Concepts of AI in Law
- Define AI, machine learning, and large language models
- Explain how data inputs, hidden layers, and training lead to predictive outputs
- Opportunities for Legal Practitioners
- Highlight efficiencies in document review, case analysis, translations, and content generation
- Discuss potential productivity gains and new service models
- Risks & Challenges
- Address misinformation, bias, malicious use, and implications for data privacy
- Discuss the ethical risk of mis-reliance on AI outputs and ensuring validity in legal reasoning
- Legal & Ethical Implications
- Review relevant regulations, case law, and evolving professional responsibility standards
- Explore emerging intellectual property concerns and the need for informed consent
- Judicial & Regulatory Responses
- Examine how courts and regulatory bodies are responding to AI-driven practice
- Note recent rulings, proposed guidelines, and future areas of oversight
- Recommendations & Best Practices
- Provide guidance on starting small, ensuring proper training, verifying sources, and maintaining compliance
- Encourage developing internal policies, audits, and ongoing professional education
- Questions & Answers (as time permits)
Free Justia Connect Memberships are available to lawyers, other legal professionals, students, and all law enthusiasts.
Log In NowNot a Member? Get Connected for Free
* CLE credit is only available to Justia Connect Pro members.
*CLE credit is only available to Justia Connect Pros. Not a Pro? Upgrade today>>
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.0 Technology in the Practice of Law
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.0 General
Difficulty: All Levels
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.0 Technology Training
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.0 General
This presentation is approved for one hour of Technology in the Practice of Law CLE credit in California, one hour of General CLE credit in South Carolina (all levels), and one hour of Technology Training CLE credit in North Carolina. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours.
Justia only reports attendance in jurisdictions in which a particular Justia CLE Webinar is officially accredited. Lawyers may need to self-submit their certificates for CLE credit in jurisdictions not listed above.
Note that CLE credit, including partial credit, cannot be earned outside of the relevant accreditation period. To earn credit for a course, a lawyer must watch the entire course within the relevant accreditation period. Lawyers who have viewed a presentation multiple times may not be able to claim credit in their jurisdiction more than once. Justia reserves the right, at its discretion, to grant an attendee partial or no credit, in accordance with viewing duration and other methods of verifying course completion.
At this time, Justia only offers CLE courses officially accredited in certain states. Lawyers may generate a generic attendance certificate to self-submit credit in their own jurisdiction, but Justia does not guarantee that lawyers will receive their desired CLE credit through the self-submission or reciprocity process.
Wetherington Law Firm
Matt Wetherington is a nationally recognized lawyer focused on high-stakes cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, and class actions. Read More ›