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AI on Your Team: How Legal Teams Are Actually Using AI Right Now
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Cincinnati Convention Center
At this session, case studies trace AI through different legal workflows.
A housing defense team at the Legal Aid Society of NYC built HANA, a retrieval-augmented generation tool that helps paralegals and attorneys rapidly research housing law questions and draft responses — with a live demonstration showing how it works in practice, where it saves time, and where human judgment remains essential.  
A supervising attorney trainer describes what changes when the people you supervise start using AI for legal drafting: What does quality control look like? How do you train attorneys to verify AI output rather than trust it? How does the supervisor's role evolve when the first draft isn't written by the person whose name is on it?
After each case study, participants pair up to process what they heard: What surprised you? What would break in your organization if you tried this tomorrow? 
Then two hands-on exercises:
1. A workflow mapping exercise asks each participant to pick one repetitive legal task in their organization, sketch the current steps, identify where AI could assist, and mark where human review remains non-negotiable.
2. A 90-day pilot plan worksheet makes it concrete: What tool? What workflow? Who supervises? What does success look like at 30, 60, and 90 days? What's the first approval you need?
You'll leave with a realistic picture of AI in legal aid today — not the AI of conference keynotes, but the AI of Monday morning — and a plan for getting started that fits your actual resources.

Speakers
avatar for Barbara Michalska

Barbara Michalska

Supervising Attorney, The Legal Aid Society
Barbara (Basia) Michalska, Esq. is a Supervising Attorney at The Legal Aid Society’s Housing Justice Helpline, where she co-created the AI-powered Information Retrieval Tool that was named a grand prize winner in Robin Hood’s AI Poverty Challenge. Selected from nearly 200 national applicants, the tool was re... Read More →
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Kimberly Skadan

Housing Attorney Trainer and Supervisor, The Legal Aid Society of New York
Kimberly Skadan (she/her) joined The Legal Aid Society since 2008, first as a Staff Attorney in the Brooklyn Office for the Aging, then as Housing Attorney Trainer and Supervisor in the Civil Practice's Training and Professional Development unit. Prior to joining LAS, she was awarded... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Cincinnati Convention Center 537 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
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