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.
- 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)
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Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 Technology in the Practice of Law
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 General
Difficulty: All Levels
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 Technology Training
Status: Approved
Credits: 1.00 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 1.00 credit hours.
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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 ›