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CLE Credit: This seminar has been submitted for 3 hours of CLE credit in Tennessee.
To receive credit, please provide your TN Bar information on the sign-in sheet at registration on the day of the event.

OVERVIEW
A half-day workshop in Nashville will bring together in-house lawyers from a wide range of industries across the Southeast for a series of presentations and interactive learning sessions focused on AI.
Our workshop will cover unique challenges and opportunities facing in-house counsel as they relate to AI and help participants to define, develop and implement strategies to leverage it to deliver value for their organizations.
The content of the program—with an emphasis on collaboration—will provide key contexts around the current and future state of AI, prompting sessions to help you apply AI in your workflow, ways to collaborate with third-party technology partners, and discussions around ethics and AI.
STRUCTURE + AUDIENCE
- 1/2 day event held in Nashville in August 2025 at Baker Donelson Nashville offices.
- This event is intended for senior-level decision makers from in-house departments (i.e.; General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Associate General Counsel, Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Counsel, Legal Operations Leaders, etc.)
- Content will be thematically focused on key challenges facing legal departments and the opportunity and risk around deploying AI to solve them
- The workshop’s content will consist of leadership presentations, hands-on AI prompting sessions, and group evaluation of use cases
Program
12:00 to 12:20Pm | INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP
12:20 to 1:20PM | Panel Discussion: The Current and Future State of AI and Legal Services
Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal profession in this engaging live panel featuring a chief information officer, a general counsel, a law firm innovation leader, and a practicing attorney moderator. Panelists will share firsthand insights on evaluating AI tools, training legal professionals, and measuring ROI—while addressing real-world use cases, adoption trends, and ethical safeguards. Don’t miss this forward-looking discussion on how AI is transforming legal workflows and what the legal department of 2030 might look like.
1:20 to 1:40PM | NETWORKING BREAK
1:40 to 2:40PM | BREAKOUT SESSIONS: CREATING EFFECTIVE AI PROMPTS TO OPTIMIZE RESULTS FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Participants will be divided into small groups for an interactive learning session, during which they will have the opportunity to test out prompts on different AI tools and watch live demonstrations from an expert.
Our facilitators will demonstrate prompt examples before taking requests from the audience.
2:40 to 3:00PM | NETWORKING BREAK
3:00 to 4:00PM | FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: ETHICAL AI USE IN LEGAL SETTINGS
As legal departments explore AI to boost efficiency, they step into the role of ethical stewards, responsible for ensuring that AI tools are used in ways that reflect the values of the business and uphold legal and regulatory standards.
In Nashville’s dynamic business sectors, the need for trustworthy, well-governed AI is critical. This session explores what responsible AI adoption looks like in a high-performing legal department.
Key Topics:
- Addressing bias in legal tech: Spotting and preventing biased outcomes that could create legal or reputational risk
- Confidentiality + data privacy: Ensuring AI tools meet legal confidentiality standards and data protection regulations
- Maintaining human oversight: Putting the right guardrails in place to maintain accuracy, nuance, and accountability
- Building internal AI policies: How forward-looking legal departments are establishing clear, practical guidelines around where, when, and how AI can be used for legal work
- Applying professional ethics rules: Understanding how Tennessee Bar Association ethics rules and federal compliance expectations intersect with emerging AI tools
4:00 to 5:00PM | Reception