I am honored to announce that I will be speaking at a Harris Bock program with Professor Samuel D. Hodge on practical AI for personal injury attorneys.
The hardest part of using AI in a law practice is not the technology. It’s knowing what to trust, what to avoid, and where the ethics rules draw the line. On July 23, I’m helping teach a full-day CLE built to answer those questions for litigators.
The Dispute Resolution Institute is running Practical A.I. for P.I. Lawyers and All Litigators. It’s made for working lawyers, not data scientists. The point is to send you back to your practice with techniques you can use the next day, not theory you’ll forget by lunch.
We cover the eight areas where AI is already changing litigation:
- Document drafting
- Legal research
- Contract review
- Litigation strategy
- Case analysis
- Due diligence
- Predictive analytics
- Client communication.
You’ll see which tools are worth your time right now and how AI is being used to predict litigation outcomes. You’ll also see where it breaks. We spend real time on the failures, because that’s where lawyers get hurt: hallucinated cases, quiet inaccuracies, and the confidentiality problems that come from feeding client data into the wrong tool.
My part of the day is where practical AI use meets risk management. You’ll leave knowing how to use generative AI without crossing a line. I’ll walk through specific AI tools you can test yourself. I’ll also get into agentic AI and its risks and benefits, when to use prompts versus skills, and how connecting tools like Microsoft 365 can make you more efficient.
The faculty is small on purpose. It’s a mix of academics and practitioners: Samuel Hodge of Temple University, Charles Lanzalotti and Sara Gray of Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg, Justin Schorr of DJS Associates, Richard Godshall and Erin Pine of Ostroff Godshall, and me. Course planner Harris Bock kept it tight so the day stays practical.
Here are the details:
Thursday, July 23, 2026, 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Live online, with limited in-person seats at the DRI office. Six credits for $350, which works out to $60 a credit hour. Register at adrdri.com/cle-events. If you have trouble registering, contact the registrar, Margie Pepe, at 215-656-4374.
AI is the elephant in the room for litigators this year. Come spend a day with it.