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A Deep Dive on Language Modeling (NEW)
(Foundations in Modern Law: Specialized AI Practice Series – Session Two)
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Category: CLE, Alternative Dispute Resolution (CLE), Bankruptcy and Debtor-Creditor (CLE), Business & Corporations (CLE), Commercial & Consumer Law (CLE), Constitutional Law (CLE), Criminal Law (CLE), Education Law (CLE), Elder Law (CLE), Employment and Labor Law (CLE), Environmental Law (CLE), Family Law (CLE), Government Law (CLE), Health Law (CLE), Intellectual Property Law (CLE), International Law (CLE), Law Practice Management (CLE), Litigation (CLE), Real Property Law (CLE), Taxation (CLE), Tort Law (CLE), Trusts, Wills & Estates (CLE) (show less)
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This class is not eligible for D.C. Bar CLE passport use
Credits: 2.0 general credit hours (Note: This class may be eligible for technology credit in those jurisdictions having such a requirement.) Series Description: In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the legal landscape, understanding its underlying mechanisms, strengths, and limitations is essential for attorneys. This new four-part series provides a comprehensive foundation for legal professionals who want to stay ahead of the AI curve and navigate its implications responsibly and effectively.
Class Description: This essential class in our Foundations in Modern Law: Specialized AI Practice Series offers attorneys a comprehensive understanding of language modeling – an area increasingly integral to legal work but often misunderstood. Beginning with a brief history, we’ll explore the progression from “bag-of-words” models to transformer-based architectures that power today’s advanced applications. Our faculty expert will unpack the major components of modern language models, including learned token embeddings, general pre-training, attention mechanisms, vision-language models, and the emergent functionalities that have significantly enhanced AI’s capabilities in language understanding and generation.
This class also addresses a critical knowledge gap: While attorneys are often expected to integrate language models into their workflows, few fully understand their inner workings or their strengths and limitations beyond a general concept of “predicting the next word.” We’ll demystify these mechanisms by examining the differences between recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformer neural networks – an understanding that is crucial for attorneys to appreciate the transformative impact of model architectures on data interpretation and output quality.
You will have access to guided, hands-on demonstrations using free, publicly available models, allowing you to experiment with key concepts at home. These exercises will illustrate the difference between explicit and implicit modeling capabilities of neural networks, providing a practical perspective on how language models process and respond to input data.
By the end of this class, you will have a well-rounded familiarity with each language model component, a deep understanding of the capabilities and limitations of RNNs and transformers, and insight into the specific ways these models can – and cannot – enhance legal tasks. This foundational knowledge is indispensable for attorneys who aim to use AI responsibly and strategically, with a clear view of its implications on legal practice. Those interested in this class may also want to attend How AI Really Works, and What Models Are Actually Modeling; Working Alongside AI Responsibly & Ethically and Risks Baked Into AI.
Faculty: Todd Smith, D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Cosponsor: D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Save $60 by clicking the Special Offer tab above! Series Fees: $0 D.C. Government Attorneys, $296 D.C. Bar Communities Members, $336 D.C. Bar Members, $376 Government and Nonprofit Attorneys, and $456 Others
Individual Class Fees: $0 D.C. Government Attorneys, $89 D.C. Bar Communities Members, $99 D.C. Bar Members, $109 Government and Nonprofit Attorneys, and $129 Others The D.C. Bar CLE Program now offers discounted group registration rates! For more information, contact the CLE Office at CLE@dcbar.org or 202-626-3488. Special Notice If you are planning to attend this event in person at the D.C. Bar, please click here for more information concerning the Bar’s COVID guidelines and visitor policy. Also, if you are attending a class in person, we encourage you to bring a device or to download the materials prior to class as we will not be providing hard copies.
2 General (60-minute hour)
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2 General (50-minute hour)
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| Registration Fees | Early Registration | Standard |
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| Non-Member | N/A | $129.00 | | D.C. Bar Member | N/A | $99.00 | | D.C. Bar Regular Community Member | N/A | $89.00 |
| D.C. Government Attorneys | Early Registration | Standard |
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| Non-Member | N/A | $0.00 |
| All Other Government & Nonprofit Attorneys | Early Registration | Standard |
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| Non-Member | N/A | $109.00 |
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