Academy
Legal AI Ethics for In-House Legal
This session examines ethical obligations for in-house counsel using AI tools, referencing ABA Formal Opinion 512 and recent case law. It addresses how courts are currently defining privilege, work product, and professional responsibility in AI-assisted legal contexts.
Who it’s for: in-house legal teams.
Includes: interactive live session with use cases, lifetime replay + materials, private peer community, completion certificate, and a 14-day free GC AI pilot with usage metrics.
CLE: 1.0 hour of Legal Ethics CLE Credit in California (Pending) under Cal Bar Rule 2.72(C)(2)(a)(i).
What you'll learn
- Evaluate privilege and confidentiality using a five-factor framework from Heppner and Warner (2026 cases)
- Why AI produces unreliable output, and verification methods
- Supervision requirements, automation bias risks, and quality control practices
- Hands-on exercises for auditing AI legal analysis
Your instructors
Amanda is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, helping lawyers harness AI to elevate their practice. With 11 years of corporate and commercial experience spanning Big Law and in-house roles, she built a broad generalist practice with particular depth in technology.
Courtney O’Brien began her legal career at Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia, where she spent nearly six years as a commercial litigation associate. As part of Blank Rome’s commercial litigation practice group, she represented clients across a wide range of commercial and corporate disputes, including contract litigation and class action matters.
In 2021, Courtney moved in-house at Attentive, a comprehensive text message and email marketing platform, where she spent just over five years. She joined as Senior Counsel, Product, and was later promoted to Lead Counsel, Product & Litigation, bridging the gap between the company’s product organization and its litigation exposure, advising on how a fast-moving SaaS product intersected with a complex regulatory and legal landscape.
Today, Courtney is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, where she sits at the intersection of law and emerging technology. She teaches AI prompting classes to legal professionals and works directly with clients to implement AI solutions tailored to their transactional needs, helping legal teams put practical, well-designed AI tools to work in their day-to-day practice.
Courtney earned her J.D. from Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law.
Reviews
Good balance of the substance of the ethical rules and prompting tips.
Practical tips for leveraging the AI tool itself to help you meet privilege protection standards.
I really appreciated starting with the ethics obligations and how to use to evaluate potential models and to protect your work.
Practical recs.
PRACTICAL TIPS, CLEAR GUIDANCE, FUN CLASS. THANK YOU PHIL AND AMANDA!
Clear knowledge of the subject matter.
This was a great ethics class with practical takeaway tips on how to use AI ethically, including a great prompt to force the AI to check / review its work
Great thoughtful class.
Super practical and very very helpful. Thank you so much!
There is always more to learn with AI, and this class answered some lingering questions that I had never quite pinned down: confidence around privilege with AI and ways to better verify outputs.