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TCDLA 2026 - AI in Law

Explore my professional learning resources for the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association summer event, CLE in the Sun.

AI for the Defense

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Explore my professional learning resources for the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association summer event, CLE in the Sun.

Welcome to the session materials for my session, AI in Law: Tools, Tactics, Ethical Traps & Practical Prompting.

Here are the links you need to keep track of for this presentation and access resources:

One Thing

Draft with the tool, and decide as the lawyer. Generative AI can produce a great deal of text quickly. Your value is knowing which of it is true, which serves this client, and which to cut. If you keep only one habit from the session, make it this one:

Open the source and verify the citation, every single time.

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Access the Padlet to Share Your Questions/Insights

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Resources for You

Access the Session Walkthrough

This resource provides an overview of the day with links to all activities. It’s a great place to start to see the outline of the day.

AI Fluency Assessment

Five quick questions that place your practice on a four-level ladder. A good gut check.

Slide decks

The presentations. Four short, self-contained slide decks you can reopen any time: an overview, Ethical Foundations, Risk-Reducing Practices, and Guardrails and Takeaways. Each one carries its own speaker notes, so they read cleanly even without a presenter.

Website and Handouts

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Inspired by Session(s)

  • Storytelling for the Defense - This resource was inspired by Monique Spark’s presentation on Storytelling. I thought it might be fun to see what Gen AI could do with extending those ideas.
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Bots and Custom GPTs

These are ready-made, defense-focused assistants with the framework and the guardrails built in. Prefer to build your own copy in Claude, ChatGPT, or another tool? Download the bot files as a single zip from the resources page and upload the pieces. Remember that if you’re using the free version of an AI chatbot, you have no assurance of confidentiality.

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AI could free 266 million hours annually for U.S. lawyers, translating to $100,000 in billable time per lawyer (Thomson Reuters Legal).

Miscellaneous Resources

  • JobsGPT (direct link to ChatGPT. To use it, you must be logged into ChatGPT with a free or plus account). This is Marketing AI Institute Founder and CEO Paul Roetzer’s custom GPT that breaks down how AI might affect your job and forecasts new roles emerging in your field. Learn more about it.
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Practice Safely

Every scenario on the site is fictional, and it is fictional for a reason. Never put confidential, privileged, or client-identifying facts into a consumer chatbot. Strip the identifiers, or use a stand-in, and save real client material for tools with proper data terms. When AI hands you a case, treat it as a lead to verify, not an authority to cite. Courts across the country have sanctioned lawyers who filed briefs built on citations the machine invented. That habit, opening the source yourself, would have saved every one of them.

Choosing the Right Tool

Any of these free chatbots will carry you through everything on the site: Claude, ChatGPT, Z.ai, or Mistral. If you have none set up, the BoodleBox bot above is the fastest way to start. Remember to get the code from the facilitator.

IMPORTANT: Even paid tools like Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT will use your data for training purposes. You should use a chatbot that you have an enterprise level agreement with to ensure your data is protected. BoodleBox, at $20 a month, has enterprise agreements in place and safeguards your data, making it the best secure option. Again, remember to de-identify your data before putting it in any chatbot.

Multi-lingual Resources

The resources page reads in several languages, so it is easy to share across your office. The non-English translations are AI-assisted and pending review, and the underlying materials are in English. If a paralegal, an investigator, or a newer attorney wants a low-stakes way to try structured, verifiable AI, the Scenario Bank and the fluency self-check are a friendly place to begin.

Take it with you

Bookmark mglearn.github.io/legalai, run the checklist before anything leaves your desk, and keep exploring the Scenario Bank when you have ten minutes. Use the tools well, keep the judgment yours, and stay accountable.

These materials are for education and are not legal advice. Rule and statute references are illustrative; confirm the current text before you rely on them.

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