Practical AI for Lawyers: Hands-On Tools for Daily Practice

Generative AI has captured the imaginations of lawyers worldwide – but when it comes to practice, many lawyers have not progressed beyond ChatGPT. In this program, legal tech entrepreneur and law professor Ed Walters will explain how these tools work in practical terms and will show actual AI products and practical work they can do. He will talk about the risks, benefits, and opportunities for these tools, not in theory, but in everyday work.

Topics covered include:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Law Practice Legal Industry Trends Legal Tech

Agenda:

Introduction
- Brief introduction of the presenter
- Agenda for the presentation
AI: Recognizing Patterns

Brief introduction to training data
Hands-on example

LLMs: Generative Pretrained Transformers

Why they are different from earlier models
Examples
Potential in law firms

Risks of General Foundation Models

Example of hallucination
Why foundation models hallucinate

Three Pillars of Responsible AI

Accuracy
Transparency
Confidentiality

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

How it works
Why it’s important
How this fights hallucinations

Practical Examples

Research example
Complaint example

Potential Futures – Opportunities and Risks

Questions & Answers (as time permits)

Duration of this webinar: 60 minutes

Originally broadcast: May 07, 2025 9:00 AM PT

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits

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California CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 Technology in the Practice of Law

Earn Credit Until: June 30, 2026

South Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Difficulty: All Levels

Earn Credit Until: December 31, 2025

North Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 Technology Training

Earn Credit Until: February 28, 2026

Texas CLE

Status: Approved

Credits: 1.00 General

Earn Credit Until: April 30, 2026

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 1.00 credit hours.

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Speaker

Ed Walters Chief Strategy Officer
vLex

Ed Walters is the Chief Strategy Officer of vLex and the co-founder of Fastcase, a legal publishing company based in Washington, D.C. Fastcase and vLex merged in April 2023 to form one of the world’s fastest-growing legal publishers. Its global law library serves more than 3 million subscribers and includes the law of more than 110 countries in a single platform, comprising more than 1 billion documents. Read More ›

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