Understand what GenAI is and how you can responsibly use it to enhance your law practice.
GenAI (ChatGPT) and AI are all the rage across America. Everyone is talking about it, students are leveraging it, and businesses are trying to figure out how it can help the bottom line. Law is, at least in part, a business; therefore lawyers, like everyone else, are trying to figure out, what it is, how it can help, and what are the risks for my law practice. This program will tell you what GenAI is and what it is not, what GenAI can do for your practice, and what are the risks, ethical and otherwise related to GenAI. After this program, you will understand what GenAI is and how you can responsibly use it to enhance your law practice.
Agenda
What Is GenAI?
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Large Language Model (ChatGPT, Llama, Gemini)
- Lack of Sentience
Potential Law Office Use Cases
- Automating Repetitive Task
- Summarizing Evidence
- Concept Outlining
- Initial Drafting
Potential Pitfalls
- Hallucinations
- United States V Michael Cohen, Dkt: 18Cr602 (SDNY)
- Mata V Avianca, Dkt: 22Cv1461 (SDNY)
- United States District Court, Southern District of Texas Local Civil Rules
- Use of Technology by Pro Se Litigants and Lawyers)
Model Types
- Building Your Model
- Pretrained Model
- Fine Tuned Model
- Prompt Engineering
Llm Marketplace
- Openai
- Gemini
- Co-Pilot
- Transformer Repositories (Huggingface, Llamaindex, etc.)
Ethical Considerations
- Rule 1.1 (Competency)
- Rule 1.6 (Confidentiality)
- Rule 3.3 (Candor to the Tribunal)
Conclusions
Speakers
Patrick T. Cronin, Esq.,
Eastern Computer Forensics- Senior manager for Accenture, an international system integrator; Accenture is a consultancy which enables their clients’ team so their clients can implement the processes and technology to deliver data excellence and drive their business forward; Patrick’s focus is privacy and data governance
- Principal for 10 years in the forensic firm of Eastern Computer Forensics; Eastern Computer Forensics provides litigation support to law firms in the areas of data analysis, historic cell tower analysis, and forensic cell phone/hard drive analysis
- Conducts regular seminars on data analysis and data visualization for attorneys
- Has been admitted in both criminal and civil proceedings as an expert on data analysis topics
- J.D. degree, Rutgers University; B.S. degree in computer science, William Paterson University; cert. forensic analysis, Champlain College; cert. data analysis, Johns Hopkins University
- Can be contacted at patrick_t_cronin@msn.com
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is primarily designed for attorneys. Other legal professionals may also benefit from attending.
