FREE AI CLINIC OFFERS FLORIDA LAWYERS HANDS-ON TRAINING WITH CLAUDE

Miami Dade College program covers Claude, client confidentiality, cybersecurity, and e-discovery

Florida lawyers who want to harness the power and efficiency of generative AI, avoid potential pitfalls, and earn CLE while doing it, will soon have a rare opportunity.

Early next month, Miami Dade College’s Wolfson AI Center and District 7 Commissioner Raquel Regalado are sponsoring an intensive, live/virtual AI clinic divided into six, one-hour, “practical, hands-on” sessions. “AI Clinic: Claude Edition” begins at noon Monday, October 5, and continues every Monday at noon for five successive weeks.

Registration is free and no coding experience is necessary. However, a $20 monthly “Claude Pro” subscription is required to access the tool for participants who plan a deeper dive. The course is Florida Bar CLE approved for 7.0 Hours General; 1.0 Hours Ethics; and 7.0 Hours Technology.

Regalado, a practicing attorney, helped shape the curriculum for legal professionals.

“I use it, I think it’s important tool that we all need to learn to utilize correctly, but it also can provide some landmines,” she said. “This is an opportunity to remove some of those landmines.”

Session 1, “Claude Foundations & Project Framing” focuses on setting up Claude as “your work infrastructure.” Participants will learn how to frame their “capstone project” and identify “the recurring problem” they will solve through all six sessions.

In addition to working with uploaded files, such as PDFs, images, and spreadsheets, Session 1 also addresses “watermarks and AI use disclosure.”

Disclosure raises interesting questions at a time when clients are flooding their attorneys with AI-generated court documents they prepared DIY, Regalado says.

“All of us are getting these emails from our clients, where they went on AI and they’re telling us how to practice law, so it’s fascinating,” she says. “How do we disclose [using] it without losing credibility, because you don’t want your clients to think that they could have done it.”

To that end, Session 3, “Cybersecurity, Confidentiality & Client Services,” addresses “fostering a clear understanding of expectations, and a protocol for responding to client emails that attach inaccurate AI research.” Session 3 also covers “protecting sensitive client information; best practices for what to share, what to anonymize; and how to structure prompts so client-identifying information is not compromised.”

Responsible, ethical use of AI to generate court submissions became even more important for Florida lawyers and self-represenative litigants earlier this year.

Responding to the growing use — and misuse — of generative AI in court filings, the Florida Supreme Court amended statewide court rules to require attorneys and self-represented litigants to certify that legal authorities cited in filings are accurate.

The amended rules, approved by the court on its own motion May 28 in Case No. SC2026-0673, also authorized judges to impose sanctions for filings containing fabricated or inaccurately cited authorities, including citations generated by AI tools that can produce what the court called convincing but nonexistent cases, quotations, or legal analysis.

The amendments took effect June 15.

Some law firms have been hesitant to adopt generative AI, but others are racing ahead, Regalado said. Florida courts are also exploring the benefits.

“A lot of circuits are using it as a tool for case management, for some basic document review, and document labeling,” she said.

It’s not possible to know exactly how prevalent AI use is among Florida lawyers, but Claude appears to be popular with legal professionals.

A free, hour-long webinar that Anthropic sponsored for the rollout of the “Cowork” legal plugin drew more than 20,000 participants in April.

Anthropic Associate General Counsel Mark Pike called the response “absolutely insane.”

“I’ve never seen a number like that for a legal session in my career,” he said.

Regalado urges lawyers to keep ahead of the technology curve.

“Attorneys are using it, governments are using it, everyone’s using it,” she said. “There’s no going back.”

Register for each session here:

• Monday October 5, 1  – Foundations: Claude product tour; Projects, Artifacts, Memory, Styles; capstone defined.

• Monday October 12, 2 – Connectors & Skills: Connect Gmail/Drive/Calendar/Slack; Claude for M365; write a SKILL.md; Cowork; Dispatch.

• Monday October 26, 4 – E-Discovery/ESI: Legal holds, AI-assisted review, defensibility, live document exercise.

• Monday November 2,  5 – Build & Capstone: Non-technical (Artifacts) vs. technical (API/Claude Code) tracks; build time.

• Monday November 9, 6 – Showcase: Capstone presentations, peer feedback, certificates.

(Editor’s Note: Lawyers and law firms should conduct their own analysis and consider all relevant facts, professional obligations, and applicable rules before adopting any new technology.  Florida Ethics Opinion 24-1 addresses many of the ethics issues related to using AI.) 

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