Unlocking the Power of Generative AI for Legal Work: Prompting, Skills, Connectors, and the Ethics Rules (2026 Edition)

Jennifer Ellis, Attorney & Legal Technology Consultant | Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC

Jennifer Ellis is a Pennsylvania attorney and legal technology consultant who has spent more than twenty-five years working where law, technology, and legal education meet. Through her firm, Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC, she advises lawyers and law firms on ethics compliance, artificial intelligence, electronic discovery, cybersecurity, practice management systems, and online presence.

• Education & Credentials

Jennifer earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Widener University Delaware Law School, where she served on the Law Review and the Moot Court Board and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

• Recognition & Leadership

Jennifer served as the founding co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Technology Committee. She was the course planner and a presenter for a Pennsylvania Bar Institute program on artificial intelligence that drew more than 330 attendees, and she develops continuing legal education programs for bar associations and legal organizations nationwide.

• Professional Involvement

Within the American Bar Association, Jennifer has served on the Law Practice Today editorial board and on committees including the Legal Technology Resource Center, the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Center for Professional Development, and the DEIB committee.

• Experience

Jennifer speaks frequently throughout Pennsylvania and nationally on legal ethics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, marketing, and law practice management. She has taught as an adjunct professor in legal writing, electronic discovery, and law firm technology. Her writing includes the Product Watch column for Law Practice Magazine, contributions to Law Practice Today and other ABA publications, and an ABA publication on building WordPress-based websites.

SESSION 1 – Prompting, Skills, Connectors, and Plugins | 12:00pm – 1:00pm

The first hour is practical. It covers what separates a prompt that produces a usable draft from one that produces generic filler. It covers what a skill is and how to write one. And it covers what connectors and plugins do when you want the AI to reach your own files and systems.

BREAK | 1:00pm – 1:10pm

SESSION 2 – Ethics Under the ABA Model Rules: Competence, Confidentiality, Supervision, and Candor | 1:10pm – 2:10pm

The second hour is the ethics hour: four duties, each stress-tested by AI. Competence includes understanding the benefits and risks of the technology you use. Confidentiality does not pause when you paste a client document into a tool nobody vetted — and connectors raise that question in its sharpest form, because a connector can reach an entire client file rather than the one document you meant to share. Supervision applies to work an AI produces the same way it applies to work a new associate produces. Candor to the tribunal applies to every citation in a filing, no matter what generated it. You will leave with a short list of questions to ask before any client data goes near an AI tool.