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Originally presented: January 27, 2025 | Course length: 6.75 hours
Learn how to leverage artificial intelligence tools to enhance your legal writing process, refine your skills of persuasion, and improve your legal documents.
From research and legal writing assistance, to drafting contracts and other legal documents, to proofreading and editing, to analyzing cases, and even brainstorming, AI tools are a game changer for legal writing. A roster of experienced legal writers explore the ways technology can help you be more effective and efficient, create better written documents, and offer greater value to your clients.
Learn How To –
Plus –
A “Hands-On” Workshop Using AI to Draft Legal Documents
Attend this course and learn how to use the Power of AI to produce higher quality writing in less time at a lower cost.
Welcome & Introduction (5 MINUTES)
Why You Have to Write Differently and How AI Helps You Write Better (15 MINUTES)
Mandated e-filing, shorter attention spans, digital consumption and altered reading habits impact the expectations of judges, clients and other legal readers. Learn how leveraging AI tools to elevate your writing will provide a better experience for your reader and make you more effective and efficient.
– Brendan M. Kenny & Neven Selimovic, Course Co-Chairs
Foundations of Effective Legal Writing (30 MINUTES)
Judge Wahl provides a fast-paced, practical overview of the cornerstones of good legal writing – plain language, clarity, conciseness, structure and organization and introduces an easy-to-use paradigm for structuring your writing process.
– Judge Edward T. Wahl
Designing a Better Case – How to Strategically Use AI in Litigation (45 MINUTES)
Design Thinking leader David Gross offers insight for using AI to transform your litigation writings.
– David J.F. Gross
How to Select the Right AI Tool for the Writing Task at Hand (60 MINUTES)
Leveraging the framework of the Flowers paradigm, the presenters review various AI-powered legal writing tools and discuss which tools are suited for which tasks.
– Brendan M. Kenny & Neven Selimovic
Writing AI Prompts That Get Meaningful Results – An Interactive Workshop (45 MINUTES)
Get a primer on prompt writing and grow your prompt writing skills with interactive exercises that focus on using AI for different writing needs.
– Spiwe L. Jefferson
Ethical and Practical Considerations in the Age of AI (30 MINUTES)
.5 ethics credit applied for
AI has changed client and firm expectations around time, productivity and cost and heightened judicial concern about accuracy, reliability, and integrity. Join us for a fast-paced bonus session as the faculty discusses complex ethical issues, including candor to the court, competent representation of clients, accuracy, supervision, confidentiality and more.
Using AI to Enhance Your Research, Document Review and Analysis (45 MINUTES)
Learn how integrating AI-backed technologies into your activities, to improve legal workflows and power legal data analytics, will help you write, research, and practice more effectively and efficiently.
– Damien A. Riehl
Drafting Effective Legal Documents Using AI – A DIY Interactive Writing Workshop (75 MINUTES)
Using a familiar fact pattern as a case study, the presenters will demonstrate useful generative AI platforms and direct interactive exercises focused on creating briefs, subpoenas, agreements, pleadings and more.
– Brendan M. Kenny & Neven Selimovic
This is How We Do It – A Large Firm View of Using AI for Legal Writing (30 MINUTES)
This session distills the AI expertise gained by a large firm to offer ideas and insight every lawyer can use.
– James M. Keuning
5 Legal Writing Tips for New (And Not So New) Lawyers (30 MINUTES)
Whether you are a new legal writer or an experienced legal writer using new tools, you don’t want to miss this discussion of key concepts to keep at the forefront of your writing process.
– Terrance C. Newby
$295
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Need-based scholarships are available for in-person and online seminars. For further information or to obtain a scholarship application, contact us at 800-759-8840 or customerservice@minncle.org.
Minnesota CLE is applying to the Minnesota State Board of CLE for 6.75 CLE credits, including .5 ethics credit. The maximum number of total credits attendees may claim for this program is 6.75 credits.
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you practice, you may or may not be able to claim credit for viewing this on demand seminar. Please check with your licensing agency for accreditation information.