Securities CLE Course Catalog

The contemporary legal landscape is in flux, driven by technological advancements, market volatility, and complex client demands. Steering law firms through this intricate matrix requires a unique blend of leadership traits, ones that embrace innovation, champion resilience, and foster collaboration. This session offers an in-depth exploration into the characteristics of today's law firm leaders and the multifaceted challenges they navigate.

Join our session to explore the world of citizen developers, where subject-matter experts drive AI's potential. Our panelists will discuss their journey to become a citizen developer and will highlight their vital role in AI's era of job disruption to include subjects such as negotiating complex contracts, and supporting sales while pursuing "better", cost effective and efficient solutions.

Short message and collaborative communication tools continue to proliferate across the market and present more and more Information Governance and eDiscovery challenges for organizations to grapple with. Our panelists will discuss their best practices, key considerations for short message data governance, and how they manage it in eDiscovery.

From Ideation to Innovation. Witness how the AAA went from identifying client pain points to building and implementing AI solutions via an innovative and democratic program that jump-started the launch of AI tools to enhance client services. Learn how to build a cross-departmental team that ideates, develops and builds AI solutions centered around solving internal and external client pain points.

Generative AI has taken the world and the legal industry by storm, even though law librarians and information professionals know that other types of AI have already been in use in databases for years. The panelists will review the current state of generative AI in legal research platforms, including candid comments from directors on the front lines of implementation and testing. The directors will share their experiences with some of these tools as well as talking about the overall AI roadmap, and specifically, what short and long term impact they think AI will have on legal research and the legal market generally. Generative AI is certainly a hop topic in 2023 and this program will ensure attendees get a preview of what is ahead for the rest of 2024.

This program will discuss how to pursue academic and law firm/legal entity collaboration that will better train law students to be tech fluent and tech forward practitioners ready to meet the ever-changing burden of technical competency required for the ethical practice of law. The discussion will draw on lessons learned through a series of prior, ongoing, and future collaborations which the panelists have been a part of, both collectively and individually.

This session focuses on "Regulatory and Licensing Updates" and will provide an overview of the latest developments and changes in the regulatory and licensing landscape within the financial services industry. We will cover critical updates on regulations, compliance requirements, and licensing that directly impact financial institutions and service providers.

Step into the future of advertising! Discover how artificial intelligence isn’t just enhancing, but revolutionizing the way we understand and engage with consumers. Experience the groundbreaking innovations that are setting new benchmarks in the world of marketing.

Lawyers want to see them solve the access to justice crisis. Regulators want to see them shut down. And Silicon Valley wants to invest. One thing everyone can agree on: the genie is out of the bottle, and it’s not going back in.