Join Maloney Library reference librarians for LawTech@Maloney Library Lunch ‘n Learn sessions and Workshops providing crucial knowledge for legal practice today.
All Programs 12:30-1:50 on Zoom and in room 5-02.
Spring 2025
Here Comes Quantum Computing: What the Legal Community Needs to Know
January 21, 2025
Mauritz Kop, Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology, Founder of the Stanford Quantum Incubator, and a Stanford Law School TTLF Fellow.
AI Prompt Engineering for Legal Research
February 18, 2025
Natalie DeCesare, J.D., Team Lead, Al Prompting & Engineering Specialists, Thomson Reuters.
The Demand for Secure, Legal-Specific AI for Law Firms: An Introduction to Harvey AI
March 4, 2025
Pushkar Chaubal, Jacob Weiner, Gonzalo AntonTasconand, Harvey Al.
Generative Artificial Intelligence: A 2025 Ethics Update
April 1, 2025
David Horrigan, Discovery Counsel & Legal Education Director, Relativity
Past Sessions
Fall 2024
Hallucination Free? Recent Studies Assessing the Reliability of AI for Legal Research
September 17, 2024
Daniel E. Ho, William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Senior Fellow for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford University
Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to the Creative Professions: The 2023 SAG-AFTRA Agreements
October 1, 2024
Joshua A. Edwards, Partner at Fox Rothschild LLP
Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information
October 15, 2024
Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Director, ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, former Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
Legal Innovation in Big Law: How are Firms Using Technology Now?
October 29, 2024
Rachel Dooley, Fordham Law alum, Chief Innovation Officer, Kirkland & Ellis
Orrick Labs: Building Tech Solutions to Meet Client Needs
November 19, 2024
Vedika Mehera, Director of Orrick Labs, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Spring 2024
Legal Document Drafting Solutions
Feb. 20 – 12:30-1:50
Zoom & Room 5-02
Prepare for practice success by learning about specialized tools from Lexis and Westlaw.
Courtney Day – Account Exec., Legal Drafting, Lexis Nexis
Estee Waxman – Academic Account Manager, Thomson Reuters
Law Firm Innovation Now
Feb. 29 – 12:30-1:50
Zoom & Room 5-02
What do law students need to know now about legal innovation to thrive in today’s tech-mediated law practice?
Andrew Sprogis – Chief Innovation Officer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Why Legal Innovation Matters
March 5 – 12:30-1:50
On Zoom & Room 5-02.
Why structural trends in the legal services market are making technological innovation imperative and how to get on board. Casey Flaherty – Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, LexFusion
Generative AI in Law Practice
March 21 – 12:30-1:50
On Zoom & Room 5-02
Not breathless hype but hands-on demos of tools at the frontier of AI in legal practice.
Ed Walters – Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Fastcase and vLex
Prompt Engineering for Legal AI
April 2 – 12:30-1:50
On Zoom & Room 5-02
Best practices for getting the most out of and avoiding the pitfalls of generative AI-based legal tools.
Jenny Wondracek – Director of the Law Library and Professor of Legal Research, Capital University Law School
Greg Siskind – Esq., Siskind Susser
Fall 2023
A Primer on AI
September 19, 12:30-1:50
An introduction to the fundamentals of machine learning, large language models and AI.
Alex Ortan, Machine Learning Engineer, Bloomberg Law
The Legal Singularity
October 10, 12:30-1:50
The co-author of The Legal Singularity on how AI can make law radically better.
Professor Abdi Aidid, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Docket Analytics for Better Lawyering
October 26, 12:30-1:50
Strategies for using docket analytics tools like Lex Machina to make data informed decisions leading to better results.
Autumn Callan, J.D., Lex Machina
The Promise of Legal AI
Nov. 14, 12:30-1:50
A pioneer in legal AI talks about the present and the promise of artificial intelligence in legal practice.
Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Casetext (now part of Thomson Reuters)
Technology and Access to Justice
Nov. 28, 12:30-1:50
How public interest advocates can use no-code app development platforms in the service of justice.
Edward Ernst, Fordham Law ‘23
Spring 2023
Technology and the T-Shaped Lawyer
February 16, 2023, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM, On Zoom and in Room 5-02
What are the technological and other skills that future lawyers will need to succeed?
Zachary Warren and Natalie Runyon from the Thomson Reuters Institute talk about new models for lawyering that are gaining favor and where technological competence fits into these models.
Prosecuting Cyber Crime
February 23, 2023, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM, On Zoom and in Room 5-02
Jason Trager, former chief of the cybercrimes division of the Queens District Attorney’s Office talks about the intersection of technology and crime through his experience prosecuting money laundering through cryptocurrency, theft of digital assets, online child pornography, etc.
Should Lawyers Learn to Code?
March 9, 2023, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM, On Zoom and in Room 5-02
Aniket Kesari, a postdoctoral research fellow at NYU and Fordham Law professor starting in Fall 2023, will discuss whether lawyers should learn coding and, if so, how best to do so.
The Digital Transformation of the Global Legal Industry
March 30, 2023, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM, On Zoom and in Room 5-02
Professor Karolina Mania of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland presents the results of her study on how technology is transforming the legal services industry internationally.
Cybersecurity for Legal Practice: Preparing for Your Summer Employment
May 4, 2023, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM, On Zoom and in Room 5-02
Systems and Emerging Technologies Librarian Tom Kaczorowski provides a cybersecurity primer ensuring that students are informed of cybersecurity best practices in advance of their summer employment.
Fall 2022
Learn From A Leader: Legal Innovation
September 29, 2022, 12:30 PM-1:50 PM, Rm 3-01
Join Kate Orr, Orrick’s Global Head of Practice Innovation, for a presentation and discussion on legal technology in litigation and transactional practices. Learn about how technology is influencing practice and creating client-focused solutions. This program is presented by Fordham Law’s Legal Writing & Lawyering program.
On Legal AI
October 31, 2022, 12:30 PM-1:20 PM, Zoom
Co-founder of CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and former chairman and CEO of Lex Machina, Joseph Walker, talks about the reality and promise of artificial intelligence in the legal profession and how law students and practitioners can best prepare themselves to participate in the technologies that are transforming the legal profession.
Law and the Metaverse
November 10, 2022, 12:30 PM-1:20 PM, Zoom
Dov Greenbaum, director of the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies at Israel’s Reichman University, will discuss the metaverse and its implications for the practice of law. How will the law treat illegal activity in the virtual worlds on which major companies are currently investing billions of dollars? What are the implications for jurisdiction, IP, contract, torts, defamation?
Preparing for the Future of the Legal Profession
November 17, 2022, 12:30 PM-1:20 PM, Zoom
Coordinator of the Center for Teaching and Research in Innovation at FGV Sao Paulo Law School in Brazil, Professor Marina Feferbaum, will lead a panel of international experts discussing how technology is changing client expectations for both in-house and law firm practice
Spring 2022
DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs – FinTech & LegalTech Collide
February 1, 2022, Virtual, 12:30-1:30 pm
What is DeFi (Decentralized Financed)? What are NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)? What is a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)? How are they reshaping the legal landscape? In this discussion we answer these questions.
Innovation, Creativity and Technology Law
February 10, 2022, Room 4-09, 12:30-1:20 pm
Emerging technology – including quantum computing, AI, cloud infrastructure, and data and ethics – is an expanding area of legal practice. Join Rachel Dooley ’05, Global Managing Counsel for McKinsey Digital, for a discussion of emerging technology law and how lawyers can take a design thinking approach to their practice.
Cybersecurity Workshop
February 18, 2022, Room 5-02, 1:00-4:00 pm
Expand your law practice technology know-how with this workshop, organized by the Maloney Library. During this workshop, implement measures to help protect yourself from cybersecurity threats, from creating passphrases to protecting data on your cell phone to scrubbing data from your documents.
Filing Court Documents Workshop
February 25, 2022, Room 5-02, 1:00-2:30 pm
Learn how to e-file motions, briefs, and other required litigation documents with New York state courts and Federal courts. During this 90 minute workshop, we will briefly discuss court documents and the electronic filing systems utilized by state and federal courts and then put students into training platforms for PACER (federal courts) and eCourts (NY courts). Each student will gain hands-on experience with filing court documents and will walk away with basic knowledge of both systems.
E-Discovery Workshop
March 4, 2022, Room 5-02, 1:00-4:00 pm
Expand your law practice technology know-how with this workshop, organized by the Maloney Library. Gain hands-on experience with an e-discovery platform, and hear from expert guest speakers on best practices for electronic discovery projects. By the end of this workshop, you will have a strong working knowledge of electronic discovery.
The Rise of Document Automation and Digital Contracts
April 8, 2022, Virtual, 1:00-2:00 pm
Perhaps the hottest trend in legal tech at the moment involves contract automation and digital contracts. The partnership between legal expertise and artificial intelligence creates new opportunities for efficiency, accuracy, data analytics, and management of complex agreements. Learn about the pros and cons on the human side of the advancement in document automation and smart/digital contracting.
November 12, 2021, Room 4-09, 1:00-2:00 pm
Data Analytics and the Law – The legal analytics tool Lex Machina facilitates research on judges, courts, law firms, and more. Learn how to harness this technology for a jump start on your legal research and your job search.
November 9, 2021, Virtual, 12:30-1:30 pm
The Intersection of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence – Artificial intelligence has been a huge boon to the legal profession. In August 2019, the American Bar Association adopted a long-awaited resolution urging courts and lawyers “to address the emerging ethical and legal issues related to the usage of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the practice of law.” How does an attorney measure the transparency and trustworthiness of AI? How would a lawyer know whether AI technology reflects the biases and prejudices of its developers and trainers, leading to skewed results? Join our experts as they explain a lawyer’s ethical considerations when evaluating and using AI in your law practice.
October 25, 2021, Room 4-09, 12:30-1:30pm
Cybersecurity for Lawyers – Cyber attacks are one of the greatest risks lawyers and law firms face. Learn best practices to protect yourself, your firm, and your clients.
February 4, 2020, Room 4-09, 12:30-1:30pm
New Tech for Legal Research – Technology can make legal research more effective and efficient. See a demonstration of how Casetext can take your brief to the next level by identifying additional case law.
January 28, 2020, Room 4-09, 12:30-1:30pm
Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice – Learn how AI could save you hours of time as junior attorney. See a demonstration of the platform LexCheck, which makes contract drafting, negotiating, and review more efficient.
Monday, November 11, 2019, 12:30-1:20, Room 4-09
Blockchain – Joe Raczynski, legal technologist and futurist with Thomson Reuters, consults with top law firms on legal trends and legal technology solutions. This session will address how blockchain is used in the legal field.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 12:30-1:20 pm, Room 4-09
Artificial Intelligence – Learn about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting legal practice. This session will be presented by Michael Hughes of the legal AI platform Luminance, and will include a demonstration of the program.
March 14, 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 4-09
Basic Tech: Prepare to Practice – Time is money, and using software can significantly reduce the time a lawyer spends on largely routine tasks. Explore platforms on billing, document automation, and more.
February 28, 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 4-09
Introduction to E-discovery – Electronic information is growing exponentially, and lawyers must understand the basics of preservation, collection, and spoliation. This class includes a hands-on e-discovery simulation.
February 7, 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 4-09
Cybersecurity for Lawyers – Protecting information is a tenet of the legal profession the satisfaction of which is more difficult in the age of networked information. Learn best practices to protect yourself, your firm, and your clients.
November 15, 2018
Legal Analytics – Data analytics provides lawyers with critical information to make strategic decisions. New analytics tools on Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg can also mean the difference in a successful job search. Learn how to harness data to serve your clients better and to land a great job.
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