May 30, 2024

Ethics of Using Artificial

Intelligence in Your Law Practice

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of generating content such as text, images, and videos based on generative models. Using it can create efficiencies to make you more productive, but it also raises ethical concerns. Generative AI is one of the biggest opportunities and challenges to come to the legal profession since the advent of the Internet.

In this session, Professor Patrick Keenan from the University of Illinois College of Law will cover:

• how generative AI works;
• its affect on the legal profession; and
• ethical obligations of lawyers as we adapt to this new technology.

Join us for this fascinating new topic and learn the benefits and risks of using AI.

About the Speaker

Patrick J. Keenan

Professor of Law | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor Patrick Keenan has taught at the University of Illinois College of Law since 2001. He teaches, publishes, and speaks about legal ethics, international criminal law, counterterrorism law, and human rights. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and lectured at the Chuo University School of Law in Tokyo. Before coming to the University of Illinois, Professor Keenan litigated death penalty cases at the trial, appellate, and habeas corpus stages in Georgia and Alabama as an attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights. Professor Keenan graduated from Yale Law School, clerked for Judge Myron H. Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, and served in the Peace Corps in the Democratic Republic of Congo.