Staying Ahead: AI Tips and Updates for Legal Professionals

A thousand lawyers in the same room at the same time - and not a single billable hour among them. That alone tells you something important about what conferences like this are really for. The ACC annual conference is one of those rare gatherings where the legal profession steps back from the daily grind long enough to ask bigger questions - about where the profession is heading, what it means to lead in-house today, and how we support each other through the changes none of us

In legal practice, choosing the right tools is not a matter of convenience - it is a strategic decision that affects work quality, execution speed, and the level of service you deliver to clients. When AI entered the legal profession, many of us developed a habit of loyalty to one preferred model. But professional reality is more complex, and it demands intellectual flexibility and a genuine openness to working with multiple tools in parallel.   I thought I had found The One.

A complaint is one of the most demanding documents in legal practice: it must weave together a solid factual foundation, sharp legal analysis, and persuasive language capable of driving a result in court. When AI enters the picture, most lawyers' first instinct is to ask it to write - and that is precisely the mistake. The message I brought to the annual conference of the Israel Bar Association's Artificial Intelligence Committee was straightforward: AI does not become a powe

Before we talk about prompts, tools, and strategy - there is a different conversation that has to happen first. In every room where lawyers are being trained on AI, there are elephants. And they are not moving until someone names them out loud.   A racing heartbeat, a feeling of helplessness, and an overwhelming urge to refresh the screen again and again. No, this is not a regular anxiety attack. This is what happened to me the last time my AI tools went down for a few hours.

AI presentation tools are powerful - but only when you come to them in the right order. The problem most people run into is not technical; it is methodological. They are asking the model to build a structure before they have laid a single foundation stone. The right way to build a strategic presentation with AI does not begin with visualization - it begins with thinking. Here is the method that saved a colleague of mine from walking into a boardroom with something that read l

Law faculties excel at teaching statutes and precedents. But there is one critical skill that is absent from almost every academic syllabus: the ability to manage business risk in real time. This is a lesson usually learned only in the field, and it is the key to the transition from technical lawyer to strategic partner inside an organization. At a lecture I gave yesterday to students at Bar Ilan University, as part of a course called "Tasting Corporate Practice," I came to s

Choosing a contract lifecycle management system is a little like dating: everything looks polished and perfect in the demo, but the real test is the shared life - and all its complexity - that comes after. So how do you avoid heartbreak and make the right choice? At a webinar hosted by the ACC AI Forum, we gathered the insights that anyone facing this decision needs to hear.   This is a journey, not an off-the-shelf purchase. We enter the process with a specific pain point, b

It sounds like a Hollywood script, but it happened in reality: an employee received an urgent conference call from the CEO and CFO. The voices were familiar, the tone was authoritative, and the instruction to transfer the funds was unequivocal. He executed the transfer. In hindsight? It wasn't them. It was a Deepfake perfectly tailored to the situation. No one hacked the company's computers; they hacked the employee's perception. �� The equation has changed: Forgery is cheap,