SKILLS 2025 SHOWCASE
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Opening Panel: The Human Aspect of AI
Showcase Sessions
Empowering Lawyers: Hands-On AI Training
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.
Drafting the Perfect Pitch: Search + Chat
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.
Listen to your Users: Weil Gotshal's AI Summary Service
Weil Gotshal + Syntheia teamed up to share their key takeaways after launching an AI-powered email summarization service.
The SKILLS 2025 Survey Results
From Documents to Deal Intelligence: DLA Piper and Centari
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.
How Gen AI Can Revolutionise the Processing and Exploitation of KM in Law Firms
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.
GenAI Use Case: Salesforce GenAI Legal Research & Analysis Journey
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.
Machines vs. Humans: Evaluating Legal AI Efficacy
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.
Is your legal tech truly the best?
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.
Cleary's "Open" Kitchen
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.
Unlocking Legal Insights at reed smith
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.
How Collaboration and Trust Ignited Breakthrough Innovation- Fasken and Lega
Rachelle Thompson and Christian Lang
The story of how trust and collaboration with Lega led to breakthrough innovation at Fasken.
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From Hesitation to Innovation: FBT’s BrAIntrust Pilot Program
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.
The Value in KM: Pro Bono at DLA Piper
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.
MeeT AiVar: Your Custom AI Assistant
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.
Training a New Generation: the Good, Bad, and Ugly
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.
AGENDA
9:00 (ET) Virtual Networking Hour (on Remo)
10:00 Welcome & House Rules by Oz Benamram
10:10 The Human Aspects of Adopting AI
Gretta Rusanow, Citi; Sarah Pullin, Baker McKenzie; Toby Brown, DV8
Moderated by Kathryn DeBord, DISCO
10:50 HUMANS & AI SHOWCASES moderated by Lucy Dillon
1. Empowering Lawyers: Hands-On AI Training
Iris Skornicki, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Mike Ross, Paul Weiss
Jake Weiner, Harvey
2. Drafting the Perfect Pitch: Search + Chat
Lisa Mayo Haynes, Ian Lopez, Jason Rogers, Ballard Spahr
3. Listen to your Users | Weil Gotshal's AI Summary Service
Rita Jennings, Weil Gotshal; Horace Wu, Syntheia
11:30 Breakout Room Discussion (not available on livestream)
11:45 Break
12:00 The SKILLS 2025 Survey by Ab Saraswat, Lupl
12:15 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SHOWCASES moderated by Nick Pryor
4. From Documents to Deal Intelligence: DLA Piper and Centari
Seagrumn Gilbert, DLA Piper; Kevin Walker, Centari
5. How Gen AI Can Revolutionise the Exploitation of KM in Law Firms
Neil Cameron, Legal IT Insider
6. GenAI Use Case: Salesforce GenAI Legal Research & Analysis Journey
Damien Riehl, vLex; Leo Murgel, Salesforce
12:55 Breakout Room Discussion (not available on livestream)
1:10 Interactive Networking Lunch
2:00 Machines vs. Humans: Evaluating Legal AI Efficacy
Nikki Shaver and Jeroen Plink, Legaltech Hub
Rayan Krishnan and Langston Nashold, Vals AI
2:15 AI EFFICIENCY SHOWCASES moderated by Kate Simpson
7. Is Your Legal Tech Truly the Best? Benchmarking for Smarter Solutions
Thor Alden, Dechert; Faisal Sultan, Atria
8. Our "Open Kitchen" Innovation Pilot Tracker
Ilona Logvinova and Megan McMillin, Cleary Gottlieb
9. Unlocking Legal Insights: Harnessing Data for Strategic Growth
David Cunningham, Reed Smith; Haley Altman, Litera
10. Partnering Past the Prompt: How Collaboration and Trust
Ignited Breakthrough Innovation
Rachelle Thompson, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin; Christian Lang, Lega
3:05 Breakout Room Discussion (End of livestream)
3:20 Closing Remarks & Virtual Networking (on Remo)
Thanking Our sPONSOR
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