A National Online Summit for Litigators Be the Bellwether AI Litigator
Become the lawyer other lawyers call as AI changes the litigation landscape.
Understand the emerging law. See how practicing litigators are actually using AI. And learn what it takes to build an AI-native litigation practice.
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Why This Summit
The law is changing. The practice is changing. You need to understand both.
AI is no longer just a technology issue for lawyers. It is becoming an issue of advocacy, evidence, privilege, discovery, expert testimony, professional responsibility, court rules, and credibility before judges.
At the same time, litigators are using AI to research cases, analyze records, prepare discovery, work with experts, draft motions and briefs, and build entirely new kinds of practices.
Be the Bellwether AI Litigator brings those two worlds together.
- You will learn the law that is taking shape.Courts, standing orders, sanctions, privilege, confidentiality, evidence, expert testimony, disclosure, authentication, and the lawyer's duty of candor.
- You will see how practicing litigators are actually using AI.Lawyers will share their screens and walk through how AI addresses real litigation problems from beginning to end.
- You will envision what comes next.From new research tools to AI-native litigation practices, you will learn how technology is changing the economics and structure of litigation. Not someday, but now.
Why Now
The rules are being written now
Documented judicial decisions since 2023 involving alleged or established AI-generated hallucinations in court filings.
Court orders, local rules, and judicial decisions addressing the use of AI.
Decisions addressing AI, privilege, and confidentiality. They are already forcing courts to confront when AI-assisted communications and materials remain protected, and when they do not.
These are no longer hypothetical ethics questions. They are becoming litigation issues.
The lawyers who understand them before they arise in their own cases will have an enormous advantage.
The Program
A day-and-a-half intensive to understand the rules, see the workflows, and build your next advantage
This summit is built for litigators across practice areas and practice settings, from solos and boutiques to larger firms, government, and public-interest practice. Wherever you practice, the same questions are arriving: What will courts permit? What must lawyers disclose? What happens to privilege? How will AI change evidence, experts, research, and advocacy? And how can lawyers use these tools without surrendering the judgment that makes them lawyers?
For smaller practices in particular, AI is also changing the competitive equation, putting sophisticated research, analysis, and litigation capabilities within reach without BigLaw staffing or budgets.
You will come away understanding:
- How judges and courts are responding to AI.
- Where AI can give a practice a genuine competitive advantage.
- How AI gives rise to new issues regarding litigation holds, disclosure, privilege, hallucinations, expert witnesses, and more.
- How to use AI for research and writing for today's judges.
- How other practicing lawyers are incorporating AI into litigation.
- What an AI-native litigation practice can look like when built from the ground up.
The goal is not to turn you into a technologist. It is to make you a better litigator in an AI world: informed, discerning, prepared, and capable of leading others when the rules are still taking shape.
What You'll See
Ten practicing lawyers. Ten litigation problems. Ten real walkthroughs.
This is one of the things that makes the summit different. Practicing lawyers will share their screens and show you how they are actually using AI in litigation, from research and discovery through hearings, briefs, and appeals.
Not theoretical prompts. Not generic "AI for lawyers" demonstrations. Real lawyers. Real litigation work. Real workflows.
You may see demonstrations involving:
- Legal research
- Case analysis and chronology
- Discovery requests and responses
- Document review
- Deposition preparation
- Expert witnesses
- Motion practice
- Brief writing
- Hearing preparation
- Appellate records and argument
- AI project spaces, knowledge bases, and litigation systems
And every demonstration answers the questions that matter:
- What problem were you trying to solve?
- What did AI actually do?
- Where did it fail?
- What did the lawyer have to verify?
Who You'll Learn From
Leading Voices & Practicing-Lawyer Demonstrations
First leading voices to be announced soon. The summit will bring together leading voices at the intersection of AI and litigation: lawyers, judges, researchers, and others helping shape how these issues are understood and applied in practice.
And we're looking for litigators who can show the work. The AI Work Sessions will feature practicing lawyers sharing their screens and walking through real AI-enabled litigation workflows, from research and discovery to experts, briefing, hearings, appeals, and more.
Call for Demonstrators
Are you using AI in a way other litigators should see?
We're looking for practicing attorneys willing to demonstrate a real litigation problem, the workflow they use to address it, where AI helps, where it falls short, and what the lawyer still has to verify.
Courts & Consequences
Know what courts are doing before the issue reaches your case
Judges are already confronting:
- Fabricated authority
- AI-assisted filings
- Privilege and confidentiality
- Protective orders governing AI review of discovery
- Altered and generated evidence
- Experts' use of AI
- Local counsel's responsibility for another lawyer's AI errors
- Disclosure and verification
- The lawyer's duty of candor
These issues have real consequences. A protective order may determine whether you can use a particular AI platform to review discovery. An expert's use of AI may become a subject of discovery or cross-examination. An AI-generated error may expose not only the drafting lawyer but local or supervisory counsel.
You should not have to learn these rules for the first time when opposing counsel raises them, or when a judge does.
The AI-Native Litigation Practice
What would you build if you were starting a litigation firm today?
Most law firms were designed for a world that existed before generative AI. What happens when you start with AI already available?
How does that change staffing, research, intake, knowledge management, case preparation, economics, and the role of the lawyer?
The buzz has gone to AI transactional shops and MSO-backed personal-injury structures. But something quieter is happening in litigation: firms built AI-native from the ground up. You'll hear from lawyers building them, and examine what their experiments mean for the rest of the profession.
The next generation of litigation firms will not simply add AI to the old model. Some will redesign the model itself.
What You'll Take Back to Your Practice
A resource kit built to be used after the last session
Every participant receives a Bellwether Litigator Resource Kit designed to make the summit useful long after the final session ends. Resources address areas such as:
- Court AI-order tracking
- Pre-filing verification
- Citation and quotation checking
- AI confidentiality and privilege
- Protective orders
- Expert use of AI
- AI disclosure
- Vendor due diligence
- Litigation workflow design
- AI research evaluation
- Human-review protocols
You should leave with more than notes. You should leave with tools you can actually use.
The Opportunity
Imagine where you could be after a day-and-a-half intensive
- You read a new AI ruling and immediately understand why it matters.
- You know which questions to ask when an expert has used AI.
- You recognize a privilege problem before opposing counsel does.
You use AI confidently, but you also know precisely where not to trust it. You walk into court ahead of the issue instead of behind it.
And when another lawyer asks, "Have you dealt with this AI issue before?" you are the lawyer they call.
That is what it means to be a Bellwether AI Litigator.
Who It's For
This summit is for litigators who intend to lead
It applies across every practice area, from family law, criminal defense, employment law, and personal injury to high-end commercial litigation and state and federal appeals. Wherever you practice, the same AI questions are arriving in your cases.
This is for you if:
- You are a litigator carrying real cases, whether solo, boutique, firm, government, or public-interest.
- You want to understand the substantive law surrounding AI.
- You want to watch practicing lawyers demonstrate how they actually use these tools.
- You would rather understand AI than be surprised by it in a filing.
- You want practical judgment rather than product evangelism.
- You expect to appear before judges while these rules are still developing.
- You want capabilities that once required greater institutional resources.
- You want to be the lawyer others turn to when AI changes the litigation landscape.
- You want to help shape the law, not just follow it.
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