Total Credits: 1.2 MCLE, 1.0 Kansas Credit-General, 0.0 Kansas Ethics, 1.0 Kansas LPM
Lawyers need to know about AI because it is changing the entire scope and delivery of legal services. AI in the legal profession is about far more than machine learning and eDiscovery. Just as businesses outside the profession use AI in basic chatbots on web sites, in automated answering and customer service phone portals and for sophisticated data searching and analytics tools, attorneys are using AI for these functions and many more.
Some iteration of AI is used, often with natural language processing tools, by law firms and corporate law departments for tasks such as:
Join Tom O’Connor to learn about the diversity of AI, who’s using it, and how it is crucial to maintaining an efficient legal practice.
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Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of
legal technology. A New England native who graduated from The Johns Hopkins
University in 1972 with a BA in Political Science, he later earned a J.D. at an evening
law school program while working as a consultant during the day.
That consulting experience is diverse and includes tobacco litigation, the BP oil spill
litigation and several opioid MDL matters as well as pro bono work with the Office of
the Federal Public Defender.
A frequent lecturer about legal technology, Tom also teaches CLE courses nationwide
and is a prolific writer. He has several blogs which cover current legal technology
topics and has written hundreds of articles including the 2006 award-winning article,
“In Katrina’s Wake”, about recovery efforts in the legal community of post-Katrina
New Orleans in which he participated.
Tom has authored four books on legal technology, including the best-selling
EDiscovery for the Rest of Us and most recently, AI For the Rest of Us, both of which
are self-published. In addition, he hosts the Ediscovery Channel on YouTube where he
interviews well-known figures in the legal technology space.
Tom currently resides down the Mississippi down in New Orleans with his son Seamus,
a Hosted Services Specialist with Platinum Intelligent Data Solutions. They both still
mourn the death of legal marketing maven Gayle O’Connor, a wonderful wife and
partner to Tom as well as a loving mother to Seamus.
