AI for Lawyers: Leveraging AI in Legal Practice
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About This Course
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the legal industry, offering powerful tools for data analysis, legal research, e-discovery, and client engagement, among other things. However, with these advances come critical questions about ethics, transparency, and the responsible adoption of these technologies. Attorneys have an obligation to know what AI is and how it works. This program provides attorneys with a practical and accessible introduction to AI, its key types, and its expanding role in legal practice.
Ms. Littlejohn will explore how AI enhances efficiency while also examining the current and emerging tools reshaping tasks like contract drafting, e-discovery, and legal research, and how it is being used across legal disciplines. Attendees will learn about ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Westlaw’s Co-Counsel. Important ethical and regulatory considerations, including bias, confidentiality, surveillance, and guidance from the ABA and state bars, will be addressed. The program concludes with best practices for AI prompting, including how to structure effective prompts and interact with generative AI tools to produce reliable and useful outputs.
This seminar is designed for attorneys at any level of experience who want to remain competitive and informed about the digital evolution of the legal landscape.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the different types of Artificial Intelligence.
- Evaluate how AI can be used in different legal practices.
- Examine ethical issues surrounding AI usage.
- Assess how attorneys can ensure they are properly using or implementing AI.
- Differentiate between AI chatbots and Artificial Intelligence.
Course Time Schedule:
Eastern Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Central Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Mountain Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Pacific Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Alaska Time: 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Hawaii-Aleutian Time: 6:00 AM - 7:30 AM
This course is also being presented on the following dates:
Friday, November 20, 2026
Friday, December 4, 2026
Friday, December 18, 2026
About the Presenters
Diane Littlejohn, Esq.
NCCU School of Law
Practice Area: Intellectual Property (+2 other areas)
Diane Littlejohn, Esq., serves as Assistant Legal Counsel with the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts where she advises on legal and policy matters affecting the North Carolina court system. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina Central University School of...
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