AI‑Powered Legal Research and Writing: Practical Tools, Ethical Guardrails, and Real‑World Strategies to Work Faster and Smarter
On-Demand: August 13, 2025
2.5 hour CLE
Tuition: $245.00
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Program Summary
Session I – The AI-Powered Lawyer: Real Tools for Better Legal Work & Writing – Cecilia Zinti
In this 1-hour session, Cecilia Ziniti—CEO of GC AI and former General Counsel of Replit—will break down how you can use generative AI for research, writing, analysis, and other legal tasks. Designed for attorneys at all levels, this session offers practical techniques for integrating AI into daily workflows, from precision prompting to rapid legal drafting. Cecilia will also share lessons from in-house legal teams adopting these tools, and give a live demonstration of how to do actual prompting of AI tools and get the best results. Whether you’re curious or already experimenting, this session will give you real-world strategies to work faster, write better, and stay ahead.
Cecilia will be using GC AI to show real-time use of legal AI for legal work. Participants are welcome to follow along with the session using an AI tool of their choice. To explore a trial account and test out examples in real time, visit gc.ai/mylawcle to get set up.
Key topics to be discussed:
- Smarter prompting for legal professionals: How to frame questions and requests to get better AI outputs for research, writing, and document analysis
- Transforming legal workflows with AI: Real examples of AI accelerating contracts, memos, and compliance work without sacrificing quality or control
- The rise of in-house AI: How corporate legal teams are reducing costs, training junior staff, and moving faster by integrating secure legal AI
- Hands on prompts with chat based legal AI: Getting started, inputting a prompt, reviewing a document, clause generation, and collaborating with AI
Session II – Responsibly Using AI to Assist Research & Writing – Dan Gibson
This session will cover both the ethical and practical aspects of using artificial intelligence as a lawyer. Attendees will gain insights into how AI can be effectively integrated into their work, with specific examples illustrating productive uses and the associated prompts that generate valuable results. Core areas of focus will include ethical considerations surrounding AI, its application in legal writing, and the ways AI can support and streamline legal research.
Key topics to be discussed:
- Ethics and AI
- Legal writing an AI
- Research and AI
Session III – Beyond the Basics: An Analytical Approach to AI Legal Research and Discovery – Jack R Luellen
This session will provide an analytical framework for conducting legal research using AI to facilitate productive and creative research. In addition, the session will discuss the uses of AI in discovery, including in document review, and discuss some of the benefits and concerns of a reliance on AI.
Key topics to be discussed:
- An analytical approach to AI legal research
- Effective use of AI in discovery
- Evaluating and auditing AI outputs in legal work
- Training young lawyers and law students to use AI tools
This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.
Closed-captioning available
Speakers
Dan Gibson | Davis Hartman Wright LLP
Dan Gibson is a partner at Davis Hartman Wright. His practice focuses on appeals and civil litigation. Martin-Dale Hubbell has awarded him an AV rating, SuperLawyers recognizes him as a rising star, and Business North Carolina has named him to its Legal Elite for appellate practice.
Gibson attended Wake Forest University School of Law and now teaches legal writing, North Carolina constitutional law, and appellate advocacy as an adjunct law professor there.
Cecilia Zinti | GC AI
Cecilia Ziniti is the founder and CEO of a legal AI company, GC AI, built based on her experience as a 3-time General Counsel and AI expert. For two decades, Ms. Ziniti has driven product and company success across major tech shifts and turned early technologies into iconic products that millions of people use every day.
As a three-time executive team member for venture-backed tech companies including software unicorn Replit, Ms. Ziniti has led all aspects of operations for hypergrowth. She has architected and closed partnerships with blue-chip companies like Google and Amazon and quarterbacked $300M+ in venture capital rounds from top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Index, and JP Morgan.
As the founding lawyer on Amazon Alexa and an early team member at Cruise, Ms. Ziniti understands tech adoption and how to earn public and regulator trust. Ms. Ziniti’s strategic insights make her sought-after by founders and have earned her global media appearances including on CNN and NPR. Before Amazon, Ms. Ziniti was an intellectual property litigator and technology transactions attorney and represented Apple at Morrison & Foerster, an Am Law 20 firm. Ms. Ziniti is an inventor on four US patents. She has invested in and advises dozens of breakout and unicorn companies, including Replit, Instrumental AI, and Seek AI. Her first tech job was as an online community moderator in London.
Jack Luellen | Buchalter Law Firm
Jack Luellen is a Special Counsel in the Firm’s Denver office and a member of the Energy & Natural Resources practice group. He concentrates his practice on energy law, with a particular emphasis in oil and gas law, litigation and real estate law. In his energy law practice, Mr. Luellen represents oil and gas companies, representing interests in the E&P and midstream sectors. Mr. Luellen routinely negotiates, drafts and closes agreements for the purchase and sale of oil and gas assets, as well as surface use, processing, marketing, transportation and joint operations agreements.
He frequently works with companies and capital providers in connection with debt and equity financings and related corporate governance matters, including corporate structure and formation. Mr. Luellen’s practice also includes all aspects of commercial and business litigation where he has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of matters including insurance coverage, breach of contract, intellectual property, real estate, and employment matters.
Agenda
Session I – The AI-Powered Lawyer: Real Tools for Better Legal Work & Writing | 1:00pm – 2:00pm
- Smarter prompting for legal professionals: How to frame questions and requests to get better AI outputs for research, writing, and document analysis
- Transforming legal workflows with AI: Real examples of AI accelerating contracts, memos, and compliance work without sacrificing quality or control
- The rise of in-house AI: How corporate legal teams are reducing costs, training junior staff, and moving faster by integrating secure legal AI
- Hands on prompts with chat based legal AI: Getting started, inputting a prompt, reviewing a document, clause generation, and collaborating with AI
Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm
Session II – Responsibly Using AI to Assist Research & Writing | 2:10pm – 2:55pm
- Ethics and AI
- Legal writing an AI
- Research and AI
Break | 2:55pm – 3:05pm
Session III – Beyond the Basics: An Analytical Approach to AI Legal Research and Discovery | 3:05pm – 3:50pm
- An analytical approach to AI legal research
- Effective use of AI in discovery
- Evaluating and auditing AI outputs in legal work
- Training young lawyers and law students to use AI tools
Credits
Alaska
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
Alabama
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Arkansas
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
Arizona
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
California
Approved for CLE Credits
1.5 General, 1 Technology in the Practice of Law
Colorado
Approved for CLE Credits
3 General
Connecticut
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
District of Columbia
No MCLE Required
2.5 CLE Hour(s)
Delaware
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Florida
Approved via Attorney Submission
2 General Hours, 1 Technology Hours
Georgia
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Hawaii
Approved for CLE Credits
3 General
Iowa
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Idaho
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Illinois
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Indiana
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Kansas
Pending CLE Approval
1.5 Substantive, 1 Law Practice Management
Kentucky
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Louisiana
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Massachusetts
No MCLE Required
2.5 CLE Hour(s)
Maryland
No MCLE Required
2.5 CLE Hour(s)
Maine
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Michigan
No MCLE Required
2.5 CLE Hour(s)
Minnesota
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Missouri
Approved for Self-Study Credits
3 General
Mississippi
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Montana
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
North Carolina
Approved for CLE Credits
1.5 General, 1 Technology
North Dakota
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
Nebraska
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
New Hampshire
Approved for CLE Credits
150 General minutes
New Jersey
Approved for CLE Credits
3 General
New Mexico
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Nevada
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
New York
Approved for CLE Credits
3 General
Ohio
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Oklahoma
Pending CLE Approval
3 General
Oregon
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Pennsylvania
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Rhode Island
Pending CLE Approval
3 General
South Carolina
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
South Dakota
No MCLE Required
2.5 CLE Hour(s)
Tennessee
Approved for Self-Study Credits
2.5 General
Texas
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
Utah
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
Virginia
Not Eligible
2.5 General Hours
Vermont
Approved for CLE Credits
2.5 General
Washington
Approved via Attorney Submission
1.5 Law & Legal Hours, 1 Other (Office Management) Hours
Wisconsin
Approved for CLE Credits
3 Law Practice Management
West Virginia
Pending CLE Approval
3 General
Wyoming
Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General
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