2025 Solo & Small Firm Conference - LLMs for Legal Tasks: Best Practices
Program sponsored by Oklahoma Attorneys Mutual Insurance Company
This program offers a practical and analytical exploration of best-practice strategies for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into legal practice. Participants will learn how to mitigate common concerns such as inaccuracy and hallucinations, while leveraging LLMs’ potential to streamline legal tasks. The session emphasizes the importance of user-centered design—specifically UI/UX—in enabling lawyers to effectively "trust but verify" AI-generated outputs. Attendees will also examine how LLMs can support legal argumentation, jurisdictional comparisons, and more intuitive legal research, helping practitioners move beyond conventional tools and approaches.
SPEAKER:
Damien Riehl is a lawyer and technologist with experience in complex litigation, digital forensics, and software development. A lawyer since 2002 and coder since 1985, Damien clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations, and has built AI-backed legal software.
Co-Chair of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles, he is helping recommend changes to Minnesota statutes, rules, and policies — all related to connected and autonomous vehicles. Damien is Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association's AI Committee, which oversees an AI Sandbox to promote Access to Justice (A2J).
At SALI, the legal data standard, Damien built and greatly expanded the taxonomy of over 18,000 legal tags that matter, helping the legal industry's development of Generative AI, analytics, and interoperability.
At vLex Group — which includes Fastcase, NextChapter, and Docket Alarm — Damien helps lead the design, development, and expansion of various products, integrating AI-backed technologies (e.g., GPT) into a billion-document dataset from 100+ countries, all to improve legal workflows.
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