Prepare for upcoming AI regulation and the legal oversight of frontier technologies

AI and other frontier technologies are changing the economy and the sorts of questions, disputes, and risk assessments that lawyers advise on every day. Current and emerging technologies will impact how you practice and challenge your clients’ readiness for deals, legal compliance and risk mitigation. Whether you are established in your practice and career or newly minted, this two-part course will give you the tools to prepare for lawyering in the AI economy.

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Course Details

• ~8 hours of in-person instruction and workshops: 4 hours/day over two days, including lunch or cocktail discussion (e.g., 10am - 130pm or 3-630pm; recommended Tues/Thurs or Mon/Wed to allow time for internalizing concepts and light homework between sessions; could also be presented at a retreat).
• Ideal class size is 10-15 people (can be customized for cohorts of the same seniority and/or practice area, or a mixture of backgrounds).
• Problem sets and objectives can be customized and the course can be offered as an internal training at a law firm or legal department or in combination with external clients and cohorts.
• 2.5 hours of total CLE credit: minimum of 1.5 hours of general CA CLE credit plus 1.0 hour bias credit (specific agenda may be adjusted to accommodate).

Please contact us for cost information and other details.

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Day 1

Session 1 (90 mins)

The 101: What Lawyers Need to Know About AI

• What AI is and what it is not
• How AI works
• Where it is already in use in the world
• The nature of its strengths and weaknesses
• Overview of the state of efforts to govern and regulate AI
• Tabletop exercises: which laws currently in your practice could/should/will be applied to AI technologies

Break (15 mins)

Session 2 (90 mins)

The 201: How AI Will Show Up in the Law and Legal Practice

• (start with answers from exercise)
• AI issues in the law
• AI in the judicial system
• AI in legal practice
• Tabletop exercises: how to spot AI liabilities and what sorts of questions to ask (e.g., litigation, board meeting, deal diligence)

Wrap-up Discussion (60 mins)

• Discuss each groups’ response to exercises, content, questions

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Day 2

Session 3 (120 mins)

The 301: Diving Deeper on Efforts to Govern and Regulate AI

• The What: principles, frameworks and roadmaps
• The Who: corporate efforts, global public sector efforts, civil society efforts
• Tabletop exercises: build a model responsible governance program for clients.

Break (15 mins)

Session 4 (60 mins)

Wait There’s More: Near-future Frontier Technologies

• For instance, the metaverse, connected things, blockchain, crypto and NFTs, empathic technologies, deep fakes, CRISPR, materials
• Legal implications and considerations of the above
• Tabletop exercises: making the case (mini moot court)

Wrap-up Discussion (60 mins)

• Discuss each groups’ response to exercises, content, questions