Practicing with Bots: Reimagining Legal Training and Careers in the Age of AI

AI is quickly shifting from “nice to have” to a daily collaborator—changing how legal work gets done and, just as importantly, how lawyers are trained to do it well. As drafting, research, compliance monitoring, and knowledge management become increasingly AI-enabled, in-house teams and firms face new questions: What does “good judgment” look like in an AI-augmented workflow? How do you develop junior lawyers when the first draft (and sometimes the second) is machine-assisted? And how do you design career paths that reward higher-value thinking—not just output volume?

Join us on Monday, March 9 at 12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT as Ed Sohn (CPO & GC, Lumio), Angela Hsu (Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP), Pierce Kelaita (Research Scientist & Head of Architecture, Stanford Law School’s LIFT Lab), and John Lee (General Counsel, Ruli) explore how firms and in-house legal teams can prepare lawyers to practice with AI—not compete against it. This forward-looking conversation will focus on practical shifts in training models, junior development, and career progression, along with the governance and professional responsibility considerations legal leaders can’t ignore.

Key Takeaways:

• How AI is reshaping legal training—and what to update in onboarding, playbooks, and mentorship
• New expectations for junior lawyers (and new ways to evaluate growth beyond “hours” and “volume”)
• What “professional judgment” means when AI is embedded in daily workflows
• How in-house teams can build AI-enabled learning loops without compromising quality or privilege
• Career path implications: skills that will differentiate high performers in an AI-augmented legal org
• Practical guardrails for responsible use across drafting, research, and internal knowledge systems

Who Should Attend:

This program is designed for in-house legal professionals responsible for building and leading teams—especially GCs, Deputy/Assistant GCs, legal ops leaders, and practice-area leads who are rethinking how to train, develop, and retain talent as AI becomes part of everyday legal work. It will also be highly relevant for in-house counsel partnering closely with law firms and wanting a clearer point of view on how AI is changing associate development, work allocation, and quality control.

There is NO COST to attend this program!

This program is FREE, thanks to our gracious sponsor, Ruli! The all -in-one legal intelligence platform for in-house teams! If you can’t make it to the live program, the recording will be available for viewing via our paid CLE library, In-House Connect On-Demand!