Intelligence By Intent - AI Overview (2.50 hours) course is presented by Steve Smith, Founder of Intelligence by Intent - Legal AI Advisory. He brings 30 years of executive leadership to legal AI consulting. As CEO, CFO, and SVP at technology companies, he managed P&Ls, built global operations teams, and drove growth through complex transformations. He holds an MBA from Wharton.
After seeing how AI was reshaping business operations, Steve recognized that law firms faced a unique challenge: mountains of hype, but almost no practical guidance tailored to how lawyers actually work. He founded Intelligence by Intent to bridge that gap, translating AI capabilities into workflows that pass ethics review and deliver measurable results.
Course Agenda:
Core AI Concepts Every Law Firm Leader Should Understand | Comparing Leading Platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini | Privacy and Data Protection Across Consumer, Team, and Enterprise Plans | Practical Use Case and Live Demonstrations for Immediate Implementation | Proven Prompting Frameworks for Reliable, High-Quality Results
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Introduction to AI for the Legal Profession - is an introduction to the explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) and what a lay person needs to know to understand how it is being used in medicine and law. Why it is not ready for law because of what the industry calls “hallucinations,” which simply means it is often wrong. Then this course moves into “deep fakes” and how fake photographs, and fake video evidence will be a challenge to the admission of evidence in a courtroom.
The hour ends with tips on how one can protect from “breadcrumbs” leading back to the user, if using the internet to discover information about very dangerous people.
Some of the topics: Robotic AI; Generative AI; Large Language Models (LLMs); Hallucinations - The Legal Industry BIG Problem; Open AI - Why "There is No Moat"; Deep Fakes - Photographic Evidence - Using Forensics and Other Strategies; Looking for Bad Guys - While Avoiding Breadcrumbs Back to You.
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