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Unlocking the Power of Generative AI for Legal Work: Prompting, Skills, Connectors, and the Ethics Rules (2026 Edition)

AI is built into the software your firm pays for—and every capability raises a Rules of Professional Conduct question. Learn to write prompts that produce usable drafts, build reusable skills, evaluate connectors and plugins, and vet vendors before client data is at risk.
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2026-08-25 12:00:00

Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC

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2026-08-25 12:00:00

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Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC

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Course Overview

The tools have moved well past the chatbot—and the ethics rules moved with them

2026-08-25 12:00:00

Artificial intelligence is no longer a separate product you visit. It is built into software your firm already pays for. You can give an AI standing instructions, connect it to your document system, email, and calendar, and install packages other people built. Each step makes the tool more useful, and each one raises a different question under the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Paste a client document into an unvetted tool, and confidentiality is in play. Give a connector access, and it can reach an entire client file, not the one document you meant to share. File AI-drafted work, and candor to the tribunal covers every citation. Competence now includes the benefits and risks of the technology you use. Supervision covers AI work product the way it covers a new associate’s.

You walk out with prompts that produce usable drafts instead of generic filler, a skill you write once, a framework for evaluating connectors and plugins, and the questions to ask before client data goes near an AI tool. No coding is required, and no particular product is assumed.

Format

CLE Credit

2h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

2

Key topics that will be covered

01
Prompting That Works
How to write a prompt that produces a usable draft, and how to recognize when the output is generic filler.
02
Building Skills
How to build a skill—a saved set of instructions the AI follows every time—so you stop re-explaining your preferences.
03
Connectors and Confidentiality
What a connector does, what it can see, and what its reach into an entire client file means for client confidentiality.
04
Evaluating Plugins
What a plugin is and how to evaluate one before installing it in a legal workflow.
05
Applying the Ethics Rules
How the competence, confidentiality, supervision, and candor rules apply to a specific AI workflow.
06
Vetting Vendors
What to ask a vendor before any client information goes into an AI tool.

Program schedule

clock 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Prompting, Skills, Connectors, and Plugins

The first hour is practical. It covers what separates a prompt that produces a usable draft from one that produces generic filler. It covers what a skill is and how to write one. And it covers what connectors and plugins do when you want the AI to reach your own files and systems.

Jennifer EllisJennifer Ellis
clock 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm EST

Ethics Under the ABA Model Rules: Competence, Confidentiality, Supervision, and Candor

The second hour is the ethics hour: four duties, each stress-tested by AI. Competence includes understanding the benefits and risks of the technology you use. Confidentiality does not pause when you paste a client document into a tool nobody vetted — and connectors raise that question in its sharpest form, because a connector can reach an entire client file rather than the one document you meant to share. Supervision applies to work an AI produces the same way it applies to work a new associate produces. Candor to the tribunal applies to every citation in a filing, no matter what generated it. You will leave with a short list of questions to ask before any client data goes near an AI tool.

Jennifer EllisJennifer Ellis
Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC

Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC

Jennifer Ellis is a Pennsylvania attorney and legal technology consultant who has spent more than twenty-five years working where law, technology, and legal education meet. Through her firm, Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC, she advises lawyers and law firms on ethics compliance, artificial intelligence, electronic discovery, cybersecurity, practice management systems, and online presence.

Education & Credentials

Jennifer earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Widener University Delaware Law School, where she served on the Law Review and the Moot Court Board and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

Recognition & Leadership

Jennifer served as the founding co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Technology Committee. She was the course planner and a presenter for a Pennsylvania Bar Institute program on artificial intelligence that drew more than 330 attendees, and she develops continuing legal education programs for bar associations and legal organizations nationwide.

Professional Involvement

Within the American Bar Association, Jennifer has served on the Law Practice Today editorial board and on committees including the Legal Technology Resource Center, the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Center for Professional Development, and the DEIB committee.

Experience

Jennifer speaks frequently throughout Pennsylvania and nationally on legal ethics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, marketing, and law practice management. She has taught as an adjunct professor in legal writing, electronic discovery, and law firm technology. Her writing includes the Product Watch column for Law Practice Magazine, contributions to Law Practice Today and other ABA publications, and an ABA publication on building WordPress-based websites.
Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis

Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC

Jennifer Ellis is a Pennsylvania attorney and legal technology consultant who has spent more than twenty-five years working where law, technology, and legal education meet. Through her firm, Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC, she advises lawyers and law firms on ethics compliance, artificial intelligence, electronic discovery, cybersecurity, practice management systems, and online presence.

Education & Credentials

Jennifer earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Widener University Delaware Law School, where she served on the Law Review and the Moot Court Board and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

Recognition & Leadership

Jennifer served as the founding co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Technology Committee. She was the course planner and a presenter for a Pennsylvania Bar Institute program on artificial intelligence that drew more than 330 attendees, and she develops continuing legal education programs for bar associations and legal organizations nationwide.

Professional Involvement

Within the American Bar Association, Jennifer has served on the Law Practice Today editorial board and on committees including the Legal Technology Resource Center, the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Center for Professional Development, and the DEIB committee.

Experience

Jennifer speaks frequently throughout Pennsylvania and nationally on legal ethics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, marketing, and law practice management. She has taught as an adjunct professor in legal writing, electronic discovery, and law firm technology. Her writing includes the Product Watch column for Law Practice Magazine, contributions to Law Practice Today and other ABA publications, and an ABA publication on building WordPress-based websites.

Credits by state

AK1.0
AL1.0
AR1.0
AZ1.0
CA1.0
CO1.0
CT1.0
DC2.0
DE1.0
FL1.0
GA1.0
HI1.0
IA1.0
ID1.0
IL1.0
IN1.0
KS1.0
KY1.0
LA1.0
MA2.0
MD2.0
ME1.0
MI2.0
MN1.0
MO1.2
MS1.0
MT1.0
NC1.0
ND1.0
NE1.0
NH60.0
NJ1.0
NM1.0
NV1.0
NY1.0
OH1.0
OK1.0
OR1.0
PA1.0
RI1.0
SC1.0
SD2.0
TN1.0
TX1.0
UT1.0
VA1.0
VT1.0
WA1.0
WI2.0
WV1.2
WY1.0

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MCLE Credits

Alabama
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
Alaska
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
iOur programs are CLE-eligible through Alaska’s recognition of multi-jurisdictional reciprocity.
Arizona
Approved
1 General, 1 Professional Responsibility/Ethics
Arkansas
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
California
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
Colorado
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Connecticut
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Delaware
Pending
1 General, 1 Enhanced Ethics
District of Columbia
No Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Florida
Pending
1 General Hours, 1 Ethics Hours
Georgia
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
Hawaii
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics or Professional Responsibility Education
Idaho
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Illinois
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics, Civility, Professionalism
Indiana
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Iowa
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Kansas
Pending
1 Substantive, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Kentucky
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Louisiana
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Maine
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Maryland
No Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Massachusetts
No Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Michigan
No Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Minnesota
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Mississippi
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Missouri
Approved
1.2 General, 1.2 Ethics
Montana
Pending
1 General, 1 Professional Fitness and Integrity
Nebraska
Pending
1 General, 1 Professional Responsibility
imyLawCLE reports attendance to Nebraska on each attorney’s behalf for all programs. Please do not self-report.
Nevada
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
New Hampshire
Approved
60 General minutes, 60 Ethics / Professionalism minutes
iAs of July 1, 2014, the NHMCLE Board no longer provides pre- or post-approval of courses. Attendees must self-determine whether a program is eligible for credit, and self-report their attendance online at www.nhbar.org, based on qualification provisions of Rule 53.
New Jersey
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
iOur programs are CLE-eligible through New Jersey’s recognition of multi-jurisdictional reciprocity, except for the courses required under BCLE Reg. 201:2
New Mexico
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
New York
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
iOur programs are CLE-eligible through New York’s Approved Jurisdiction Group “B”.
North Carolina
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
North Dakota
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
iOur programs are CLE-eligible through North Dakota’s recognition of multi-jurisdictional reciprocity. Section 1, Policy 1.14
Ohio
Approved
1 General, 1 Professional Conduct
Oklahoma
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Oregon
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics
Pennsylvania
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Rhode Island
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
South Carolina
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
South Dakota
No Required
2 CLE Hour(s)
Tennessee
Approved
1 General, 1 Dual
Texas
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Utah
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism
Vermont
Approved
1 General, 1 Ethics
Virginia
Not Eligible
1 General Hours, 1 Ethics / Professionalism Hours
Washington
Approved
1 Law & Legal Hours, 1 Ethics Hours
iReceive CLE credit in Washington via attorney submission.
West Virginia
Pending
1.2 General, 1.2 Ethics / Professionalism
Wisconsin
Approved
2 General
iEthics credits can ONLY be earned through Live-Webcast programs, the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners does not approve Ethics through On-Demand sessions.
Wyoming
Pending
1 General, 1 Ethics / Professionalism

Alabama

Requirements

The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.  

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