Total Credits: 2.25 CLE, 2.25 Ethics
Thinking about using generative AI? (You already might be using it and not know!) Not sure what generative AI even is? Join us for a fulsome discussion of how generative AI works and how it will affect the legal industry. In particular, the panel will discuss the benefits of generative AI and the professional and personnel challenges impacted by the emerging technology. This includes distilling complex questions surrounding generative AI potential risks (such as hallucinations and intentional fakes) and potential benefits (such as access to justice and cost-savings).
Topics will include:
• Disruptive technologies and innovations in general
• What is AI?
• How will it affect the legal industry?
• Effects already: Recent cases in the news
• Challenges of using generative AI
• Benefits of using generative AI
• Dangers of using generative AI
Faculty:
Justice William G. Montgomery, Arizona Supreme Court
Marc Lamber, Fennemore Craig, P.C.
Patricia Sallen (chair), Ethics at Law PLLC
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Marc Lamber focuses his practice on plaintiffs’ catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation. He formed the plaintiff personal injury practice at Fennemore and has built it into the strong and innovative practice it is today.
After several years as a defense attorney, Marc wanted the opportunity to work on a more personal level with clients and saw personal injury law as the best outlet. He has recovered tens of millions of dollars for thousands of accident victims and their families, resulting in hundreds of successful jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, and settlements.
Marc is frequently featured on national, regional, and local media for comment on legal issues and other current affairs, including AI and other technology in the law. Marc has been featured on the cover of AZ Business Magazine as one of The Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona and highlighted by Newsweek as one of the “20 Leaders Plaintiffs’ Trial Lawyers.”
Patricia Sallen is a lawyer in private practice focusing on professional responsibility issues. She represents lawyers in discipline and admission matters, provides ethics advice to lawyers, serves as an expert witness on professional-responsibility issues, and consults on a myriad of other law-related topics. She regularly presents at CLE seminars and publishes articles about professional responsibility and writes the Eye on Ethics column for Arizona Attorney. She also has taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law for more than a decade. In addition to practicing in private law firms, she spent more than 15 years working for the State Bar of Arizona as both a bar counsel and ethics counsel and supervised programs such as the Fee Arbitration Program and Client Protection Fund. She served as expert consultant to the Arizona Supreme Court's 2014-15 comprehensive ethical rules review effort and to the Court's 2019-20 Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services, which resulted in the groundbreaking rule changes allowing non-lawyer firm ownership and legal paraprofessionals. She currently serves on the State Bar's Ethics Advisory Group and the Supreme Court's Task Force on Ethics Rules Governing the State Attorney General, County Attorneys, and Other Public Lawyers.
- Prior to Justice William G. Montgomery’s appointment to the Arizona Supreme Court in 2019, he served as the Maricopa County Attorney beginning with a special election in 2010. Before assuming elected office, Justice Montgomery served as a Deputy County Attorney, as well as practicing civil law with a local insurance defense firm and advocacy work on behalf of victims of crime. Justice Montgomery earned a B.S. degree and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Army from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1989. He received his law degree from Arizona State University in 2001.
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