Best Practices in the Use of Legal Apps for Lawyers & Judges
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Wilmington University, Brandywine Campus

Presented by the Moderators: Richard Herrmann, Esquire & I. Connor Bifferato, Esquire

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. — Program Welcome & Framing the AI App Ecosystem

• Scope of AI apps in daily legal/judicial workflows
• Productivity benefits (and pitfalls) in practice & chambers
• What counts as “responsible” use for legal professionals
• Preview of major categories: drafting, research, analytics, ethics safeguards

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. — A Comparative Overview of Copilot, ChatGPT & Claude

• Strengths/weaknesses in legal reasoning & writing
• Integration with document workflows (Word, Outlook, Teams, etc.)
• Hallucination handling & verified-citation features
• Data governance + confidentiality guardrails

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. — AI for Legal Research: CoCounsel vs. Harvey

• Accuracy & speed in research tasks
• E-discovery & document review capabilities
• Costs, licensing, and enterprise adoption
• How judges view AI-assisted briefing

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. — Analytics for Jury Selection & Trial Strategy

• Apps that assess juror backgrounds through public data
• Bias detection and risk scoring tools
• Ethical boundaries for data-driven voir dire
• Transparency and admissibility issues

11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. — Truth or Lie? AI Tools Evaluating Witness Credibility

• Real-time credibility scoring technologies
• Video micro-expression analysis
• Judicial concerns: junk-science risks
• Policies emerging in federal/state courts

11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. — ElevenLabs: Voice Cloning, Marketing & Podcasts

• Ethical uses for client communication
• Accessibility enhancements & multilingual voiceovers
• Combatting misuse: consent, watermarking, authentication

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.—CoCounsel in Mediation for Neutrals & Advocates

• Neutral-side document generation & settlement analytics
• Automated term sheet drafting
• The ethical line between assistance and advocacy
• Privacy of shared negotiation models

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. — Future Tech Lightning Round: Emerging Apps & Discussion

• New tools surfacing in 2026+
• Judicial approvals & local rule development
• Crowd input: What do YOU use?
• Wrap-up & takeaways

This seminar offers 3.0 substantive and 3.0 ethics credits to Delaware and Pennsylvania attorneys; and 3.6 substantive and 3.6 ethics credits to New Jersey attorneys.

Locations available are Wilmington, Live stream options in Georgetown, Dover, and Seaford.

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OUT OF STATE CLE CREDIT INFO

Those attendees who wish to receive CLE credit, other than from Delaware, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, should contact their individual State’s CLE Commission for credit. The Delaware State Bar Association can provide you with the agenda (included in the Materials sent with your registration confirmation) and a Certificate of Attendance (upon completion of the webinar), which should meet the requirements of compliance.

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Reporting of credits:

Please be advised that the DSBA has 30 days from the date of the seminar to report credits. Credits will be reported according to the date of the seminar not the date they are entered.