Do legal professionals need to care about AI or is it overhyped? As the lines between AI, technology, security, and law become increasingly blurred, how can we ensure the legal profession remains both innovative and ethically responsible?
The legal industry stands on the cusp of its biggest technological transition since the cloud, and these are just some of the questions lawyers need to be thinking about.
Join Jack Newton, Founder and CEO, Clio, Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky, Founder, Formally, and Mark Britton, Founder, Avvo for a forward-looking conversation around these pivotal issues in our upcoming CLE* webinar.
In this CLE-eligible* panel discussion, you can expect to find the following insights and more:
How AI will influence the operational dynamics of law firms, including changes in staffing, policies, and the capacity to offer enhanced legal services
How AI will revolutionize the legal profession by increasing efficiency and productivity
How to overcome reservations about AI and transition to a technology-driven mindset to maintain a competitive edge
Title:The AI-Forward Law Firm: A Conversation on What’s Next for Legal
Date+Time:Wednesday, December 13, 2023
9 a.m. PT | 12 p.m. ET
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Credit:
Clio has partnered with the ABA to seek eligibility for CLE and CPD credits to lawyers with licenses to practice in the United States and Canada who join the live session of this webinar.
States typically decide whether a program qualifies for MCLE credit in their jurisdiction 4-8 weeks after the program application is submitted. For many live events, credit approval is not received prior to the program.
Speakers:-
Jack Newton: As the CEO and Founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack Newton has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, privacy considerations, and benefits of running a law firm from the cloud. Under his leadership, Clio is bettering the lives and businesses of lawyers while making legal services more accessible and equitable for all through cloud-based and client-centered technology.
Jack is also the author of The Client-Centered Law Firm, a #1 bestseller that’s helping law firms thrive in today’s experience-driven era.
- Mark Britton:
Founder and former CEO
Avvo
Mark is the founder and former CEO of Avvo, the world’s largest community for legal guidance and services. Prior to founding Avvo, Mark was the executive vice president of Worldwide Corporate Affairs of InterActiveCorp Travel (IACT) and Expedia, Inc. In this position, Mark oversaw all finance, accounting, strategy, corporate development, legal, human resources, and government relations functions for the IACT companies, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations, and Interval International. Mark was also Expedia’s first general counsel and a long-time Board member of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW).
He currently serves as a Strategic Director at Madrona Venture Group. With Avvo’s success, Mark regularly speaks around the country on technology, consumer and legal issues. His media appearances include ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox Business News, CNN Money and Dow Jones MarketWatch. Mark also received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in 2015 and was previously named a “Seattle Top 25 Innovator” and “Tech Titan 2.0” by Seattle business magazines. Upon his retirement from Avvo in 2018, Above the Law called Mark “the person who most disrupted law this decade.
- Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky: Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky is the Founder of Formally, a legal tech startup that uses accessible design to simplify and streamline immigration applications. Amélie and her team built Formally to solve two problems in the immigration space: The lack of legal representation on one hand, and the low rates of success of pro se applications on the other. Formally’s innovative software has been celebrated for its accessibility, security, and thoughtful data privacy practices.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amélie leveraged her expertise in remote legal assistance to provide legal counsel to refugees and asylum seekers at the US-Mexican border. In January 2021, she organized a conference in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab on this very topic (remotelegalaid.com). The conference brought together over 200 experts in the field including legal technologists, activists, nonprofit leaders, and security experts to reimagine access to legal services. As the lead graduate researcher at the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab, she manages projects on the right to Freedom of Assembly and Association in digital spaces, anti-surveillance, and digital capacity building for nonprofit organizations. Amélie’s research focuses on digital human rights in both international and domestic jurisdictions and seeks to bridge the gap between public and private sectors.
Sponsor:Clio
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