West Virginia CLE Course Catalog

The advancement and proliferation of AI being embedded to power legal solutions present multiple opportunities and challenges for lawyers and clients alike. This session will focus on the impact of AI-powered legal technology, how it's tipping the balance of AI resistance, and its impact on litigation.

The recent explosion of generative AI has brought with it a complex web of new legal and ethical considerations that lawyers must grapple with. In this session, we will delve into the unique ethical and legal considerations that arise from the use of AI in litigation. We will explore critical areas of concern such as privilege and confidentiality, privacy rights, data security, transparency, algorithmic bias, and liability issues. Our panel of renowned legal tech experts, ethicists, and practicing attorneys will guide participants through real-world scenarios to illustrate these challenges.">The recent explosion of generative AI has brought with it a complex web of new legal and ethical considerations that lawyers must grapple with. In this session, we will delve into the unique ethical and legal considerations that arise from the use of AI in litigation. We will explore critical areas of concern such as privilege and confidentiality, privacy rights, data security, transparency, algorithmic bias, and liability issues. Our panel of renowned legal tech experts, ethicists, and practicing attorneys will guide participants through real-world scenarios to illustrate these challenges.

From robots performing legal research to texts, Teams, and Slack supplanting email in many e-discovery matters, 2023 has been another active year in data law. Join this session as industry experts discuss the most prominent discovery decisions dominating 2024, how they will impact the law going forward, and significant cases that are likely to hit the docket soon.

Join this session as our privacy experts discuss recent additions to the US privacy law patchwork, changes on the horizon, and strategies for navigating widely varying state privacy laws.

The world of short message communication and collaboration is evolving more rapidly than ever before, and the e-discovery industry is faced with a challenge: what should we be focused on when it comes to short message data, and how do we search, review, and produce it? Join us for a discussion on these challenges and the opportunities to efficiently and effectively manage short message data. You will also learn about the best practices for searching short message communication, the role AI plays in analyzing short messages and what’s next on the horizon.

At least one-hundred and three countries have international data privacy laws, and the number of countries enacting laws continues to grow. Panelists will discuss how their organizations are navigating the growing number of laws, current enforcement trends, and how laws will continue to evolve.

Every industry is looking for ways to integrate generative AI into their workflows to support workers, automate mundane tasks, reduce costs, and the legal industry is no different. When it comes to implementing and adopting new technology though, there’s going to be heightened scrutiny and particularly from an ethics, bias and privacy standpoint. Join this session as we share insights on how firms can think about adoption of new technology like LLMs, from forming a task force to piloting products.

Amidst an intricate corporate landscape, legal departments are often perceived as cost centers, grappling with the dueling challenges of expected and unforeseen legal contingencies. Yet, the notion that these departments require an unchecked flow of financial resources is far from reality. Many leaders have proven that there are multiple ways to control costs. In this discussion, GCs will discuss the cost management techniques that have resulted in cost savings and/or cost predictability for their departments.