How Can AI Help Your Law Practice? Tips and Tools for Utilizing Generative AI

Why Attend?

• Gain practical uses of generative AI for both your legal practice and practice management.
• Learn AI use basics, including prompts, use of confidential data, and more.

The impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession is significant. Lawyers are increasingly looking to AI products to improve efficiency, work product, and client service. In this two-hour course, we will take a tour of various generative AI products to show their potential for you and your practice. From Claude and ChatGPT to Lexis and Westlaw, we will discuss various use cases in both your practice and practice management.

Topics to be covered:

• Overview of generative AI
• AI use basics, including prompts, use of confidential data, and more
• Legal practice use cases, including brainstorming, drafting, and preparing for argument
• Practice management use cases, including email hygiene, search, business development, and finance of law
• Ethical considerations and cautionary tales

Registration Deadlines:

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation/transfer requests will be honored until 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the seminar. You will, however, be charged $40 if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different seminar after the link to the materials has been e-mailed by Virginia CLE^®.

Full refunds or transfers are available up to two days after a webcast in the unlikely event that you experience technical difficulties.

Dietary Restrictions: If you have dietary restrictions and are attending the seminar in person, please email deanna.mcglothlin@vacle.org.

MCLE Credit Caveat: The MCLE Board measures credits by the time you spend in attendance. If you enter a seminar late or leave it early, or both, you must reflect those adjustments accurately in the credits you report on your credit reporting form. A code will be given at the end of the seminar, which must be written on your MCLE form.

Private recording of this program is prohibited.

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Course Schedule

• Q&A will be handled via chat room for Webcast attendees.

Faculty

John O’Herron, ThompsonMcMullan / Richmond

Jay O’Keeffe, MichieHamlett / Roanoke

About the Speakers

John O’Herron, ThompsonMcMullan / Richmond

John O’Herron concentrates his practice in appellate litigation and motions practice in both federal and state courts.

“I love the craft of legal writing, and the challenge of persuading through effective written and oral advocacy is immensely fun and rewarding”, says Mr. O’Herron, a former Supreme Court of Virginia clerk for Chief Justice Kinser. Driven by that experience and embracing the challenge of effective advocacy, Mr. O’Herron offers a variety of appellate services to individuals, business, and government clients. His services include consulting and representation related to perfecting or resisting an appeal, briefing and argument, amicus curiae, and rule compliance in the appellate courts.

Mr. O’Herron has represented businesses, individuals, and government officers and agencies in numerous appeals, tapping into his familiarity with appellate law and procedure and his proven track record of crafting successful appellate arguments. His unique expertise enables him to provide high-quality representation for written or oral advocacy to maximize the chance of success at all stages of an appeal.

Mr. O’Herron also excels in non-appellate matters and regularly appears in state and federal court in various civil litigation matters, where he similarly focuses on effective written and oral advocacy in dispositive motions. He represents a wide variety of clients, including constitutional officers such as sheriffs and their deputies, clerks of court, commonwealth’s attorneys, and businesses both large and small, as well as insurance companies and their insureds in both coverage and liability disputes.

Mr. O’Herron maintains RichmondAppeals.com, a website dedicated to his appellate practice and the recent and impending changes in the field of appellate law.

Mr. O’Herron and his wife live in Richmond with their five children where he enjoys his books, his garden, and time with his family. He is also passionate about education and is the founding president of Cardinal Newman Academy, an independent high school in Richmond, where he still serves as a member of the Board of Directors.

Jay O’Keeffe, MichieHamlett / Roanoke

Jay O’Keeffe focuses his practice on appeals and consumer-protection litigation. He has briefed or argued dozens of cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the Court of Appeals in Virginia. He publishes a blog, De Novo, that is available at www.virginiaappellatelaw.com. He earned his undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

In addition to his active legal practice, Mr. O’Keeffe is a Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and an Adjunct Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, reading, and spending time with his family.