Michael G. Colantuono | Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, PC

Michael G. Colantuono is managing shareholder of Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, a municipal law firm with offices around California. Chief Justice Ronald M. George presented him with the 2010 Public Lawyer of the Year award on behalf of the California State Bar. The Los Angeles Daily Journal named him one of “California’s Top Municipal Lawyers.” The California Supreme Court appointed him Chair of the Board of Trustees of the State Bar of California; he was previously Bar President. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

The State Bar has certified Michael as an Appellate Specialist and he is Past President of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a prestigious association of about 125 of California’s most distinguished appellate advocates. He serves on the Judicial Council’s Appellate Advisory Committee, which advises the governing body of California’s judicial branch on rules, policies, and issues affecting our appellate courts. Michael is one of California’s leading experts on municipal revenues and has appeared in all six Courts of Appeal in California. In addition, he has argued 11 public law cases in the California Supreme Court since 2004 — perhaps more than any other lawyer in private practice in recent years.

Ronald J. Hedges | Ronald J. Hedges LLC

Ronald J. Hedges is the Principal of Ronald J. Hedges LLC. He served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the District of New Jersey for over 20 years. He speaks and writes on a variety of topics, many of which are related to electronic information, including procedural and substantive criminal law, information governance, litigation management, and the integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence into existing information governance policies and procedures. Among other things, Ron is the chair of the Court Technology Committee of the Judicial Division of the ABA.

Gail L. Gottehrer | Fresh del Monte

Vice President, Legal – Global Litigation, Labor & Employment, IT & Government Relations at Del Monte Fresh Produce Company. Member of Global Incident Response Team, Disclosure Committee, ESG Steering Committee, and Global Investigations Council. Responsible for advising business on cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence and other emerging technology. Member of State of Connecticut’s Task Force to Study Fully Autonomous Vehicles. Founder and Chairperson of Cybersecurity Subcommittee of NY State Bar Association’s Technology and the Legal Profession Committee Co-Chair of the NAWL’s IP & Technology Affinity Group www.linkedin.com/in/gottehrer

Session I – AI and Lawyering | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

• Generative AI
• Practical options are available for attorney’s use of it
• Strengths and weaknesses of AI tools available for lawyers
• Ethical implications of lawyer use of AI

Break | 3:00 pm – 3:10 pm

Session II – The Ethics of GenAI: How attorneys can adopt and use the technologies in their practice | 3:10pm – 4:10pm

• Comprehend the nature of GenAI and its applications
• Learn how judges are addressing GenAI
• Recognize the ethical implications of GenAI use