Generative AI is reshaping legal drafting—accelerating first drafts of contracts, pleadings, legal arguments, deposition questions, memos, client letters, emails, and clauses. This CLE shows practitioners how to use Gen AI to move from a blank page to a high-quality first draft faster. Practical ethics segment covering competence with technology, confidentiality, and supervision—plus a checklist for avoiding hallucinations and misattributions and for complying with evolving court expectations. Finally, we’ll walk through exemplar prompts and iterations, including responsive drafting from uploaded documents, and we’ll demonstrate how to verify authorities and reduce risk with citation validation. Practical ethics segment covering competence with technology, confidentiality, and supervision—plus a checklist for avoiding hallucinations and misattributions and for complying with evolving court expectations. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of prompts, an iteration playbook, and a defensible workflow to deploy AI drafting safely in everyday practice.

Environmental law is unique in that intersects with many other practices such as real estate, corporate transactions, banking, energy, infrastructure, and litigation, among others. This course will provide foundational knowledge of key environmental laws and regulations for attorneys who do not regularly practice in this area. The program will then provide background on environmental insurance coverage, the types of coverage historically offered as well as a discussion of litigation potential of types of policies and coverage. It will then cover some of the emerging issues in this area as well and court interpretations on some of the most controversial coverage issues. Finally, the program will review practical resources to assist practitioners in dealing with environmental insurance claims as well as how best to manage client concerns in real estate transactions and corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Staying ahead of key developments across the broad and rapidly evolving legal, regulatory, and political landscape of U.S. environmental law can be a challenging task. This 60-minute seminar will provide an overview of key environmental practice areas, an update on several recent significant legislative, regulatory, and judicial actions and demonstrate effective methods to stay up-to-date as events and issues unfold.

The digital age has augmented the practice of corporate and securities law through the accelerating development of brand new ways of identifying answers and locating critical intelligence. In doing so, it has also simultaneously created an environment that can overwhelm through the sheer quantity of available tools. This course will demystify the corporate law research experience by focusing on a series of practical, relevant examples and demonstrating best practices for approaching them.

This Continuing Legal Education (CLE) session, titled "Power Prompting: Mastering Prompting Techniques for Legal Professionals," is designed to enhance attorneys' skills in effectively utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) for legal tasks. The session will provide an understanding of how LLMs function, including a discussion on the key technical mechanisms that influence LLM behavior. Participants will explore infamous prompting failures to learn from past mistakes and gain insight into the capabilities and limitations of generative AI. Additionally, the course will guide attendees in selecting the appropriate LLM, considering factors such as privacy, security, training data, and the distinction between legal and general-use LLMs. The format of prompting will be discussed through the 5 Ps framework: Prime, Persona, Prompt, Product, and Polish. Finally, potential pitfalls in prompting will be addressed to equip participants with the knowledge to avoid common prompting errors.

•Identify and understand the current state of HIPAA, including the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Rules; HIPAA violation investigations; penalties; and detect compliance best practices. •Pinpoint HIPAA trends, regulations, and understand recent enforcement actions taken by the OCR. •Discover the tools to stay up to date on HIPAA and the evolving HIPAA landscape.

Securities practice requires the ability to seamlessly navigate a broader variety of resources than perhaps any other area of law. This course will leverage substantive examples ranging from the use of Non-GAAP financial metrics in financial disclosures to cybersecurity risk factors and even hot topics in SEC enforcement for purposes of equipping attendees with the skills they need to effectively approach any securities research task with confidence.

Generative AI is reshaping legal drafting—accelerating first drafts of contracts, pleadings, legal arguments, deposition questions, memos, client letters, emails, and clauses. This CLE shows practitioners how to use Gen AI to move from a blank page to a high-quality first draft faster. Practical ethics segment covering competence with technology, confidentiality, and supervision—plus a checklist for avoiding hallucinations and misattributions and for complying with evolving court expectations. Finally, we’ll walk through exemplar prompts and iterations, including responsive drafting from uploaded documents, and we’ll demonstrate how to verify authorities and reduce risk with citation validation. Practical ethics segment covering competence with technology, confidentiality, and supervision—plus a checklist for avoiding hallucinations and misattributions and for complying with evolving court expectations. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of prompts, an iteration playbook, and a defensible workflow to deploy AI drafting safely in everyday practice.

Litigation today involves numerous tasks, encompassing investigative research, legal research and much more. This seminar walks you through a lawsuit from start to finish, focusing on the various tasks associated with the litigation and the research tools available at each phase of the litigation. Resources for practical guidance, drafting conducting discovery of lay witnesses, expert witness research, calculating damages, monitoring issues, and incorporating analytics into your litigation strategy will be discussed.

In this session, you will learn how the Model Rules of Professional Conduct pertain to lawyers and law firms’ use of data analytics for case strategy and business development. You will understand how analytics inform counsel’s ability to assess the unique experiences of the court, judge, parties & counsel involved in a case, as well as the ethical considerations that come into play in this process.