2025 Opening Panel: The Human Aspect of AI

Iris Skornicki, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Mike Ross, and Jake Weiner

Learn how Paul Weiss created a fun, hands-on AI training program with real-world Associate assignments.

Lisa Mayo Haynes, Ian Lopez, Jason Rogers

Building the tool is only half the battle; the rest of the journey is in training of your users. Ballard Spahr shared the importance of teaching attorneys the power of prompt engineering. 

Rita Jennings and Horace Wu

Weil Gotshal + Syntheia teamed up to share their key takeaways after launching an AI-powered email summarization service.

Ab Saraswat 

A review of the results from the 2025 SKILLS Survey and 2025 SKILLS AI Survey.

Seagrumn Gilbert and Kevin Walker

Data-driven insights are critical to DLA Piper’s client engagement strategy, but the process of extracting data from transactional documents is time intensive. See how DLA Piper’s KM team partnered with Centari to extract data for deal intelligence with generative AI. 

Neil Cameron

Learn how Gen AI search and analysis heuristics currently used to understand and categorize legal concepts could replace traditional KM search tools to proactively deliver useful precedent documents.

Leo Murgel and Damien Riehl

Salesforce's law department needed a solution for managing their unstructured data. In partnership with vLex, they implemented AI-backed tools, combining curated legal databases with internal legal data. 

Nikki Shaver, Jeroen Plink, Rayan Krishnan, and Langston Nashold

Legaltech Hub and Vals AI join forces to reveal insights from an industry-first study comparing AI with human lawyers. Walk away with a clear understanding of AI's potential and its impact on legal practice.

Thor Alden and Faisal Sultan

Dechert determined that the key to decision making was effective benchmarking. In this session, they shared their experience of using technology + AI to benchmark suitable tools.

Ilona Logvinova and Megan McMillin

Cleary created wanted to create transparency and awareness around AI initiatives at their firm. Their solution was a live tracker which gives real-time information on their AI pilots.

David Cunningham and Haley Altman

Reed Smith partnered with Litera to help them centralize their data, allowing them to map internal knowledge and make better informed, data-driven decisions.

Rachelle Thompson and Christian Lang

The story of how trust and collaboration with Lega led to breakthrough innovation at Fasken.

Kayla Kotila and Masako Hashimoto

Frost Brown Todd shared their journey of introducing the legal GenAI tool, CoCounsel. They found success in their "FBT BrAIntrust" program- a 12-week pilot program where attorneys become CoCounsel experts through workshops, advanced training, and roundtable discussions. 

Lisa Dewey and Elisabeth Cappuyns

DLA Piper's KM team has worked extensively with the firm's Pro Bono team on a range of matters, including access to justice projects. KM expertise was deployed in optimizing data collection, developing workflows, advising on knowledge platform architecture, using GenAI tools to extract and summarize case data, and leveraging our vendor connections to provide customized support. 

Irina Seniut

Sorainen shared their collaborative, cross-departmental journey in creating a custom AI Assistant, connected to their own know-how and databases. They highlighted the importance of having a clearly defined vision with a strong focus on security, the user experience, and an extensive training program.

Amos Israel

How do you successfully train the senior lawyers of today when so many of the tasks interns and junior are doing are automated?  This session focused on the remaining importance of precise reading in training and practice and the challenges in reinforcing critical thinking and soft skills in the new world.