Speaking

Conferences and CLEs

I speak with law firms, bar associations, and library and legal education audiences about using AI for legal research and practice, with an emphasis on asking good questions and checking what comes back. When a session is hands-on, its prompts and exercises live on a page here, so anyone who attended can come back to them and anyone who did not can use them.

Session materials

Pages with the prompts and exercises from hands-on sessions, free to use and adapt.

  • Leading Questions: How to Prompt AI for Legal Work

    The parts of an effective legal prompt, weak prompts rebuilt into strong ones for research and drafting, follow-ups that push back, and a verification step for every prompt.

    • Nashville Bar Association AI Institute, 11 November 2026

Recent talks

  • “Leading Questions: How to Prompt AI for Legal Work,” Nashville Bar Association AI Institute, November 2026
  • “AI-Assisted Legal Research: Find Better Answers Faster,” Clio Webinar Accelerator Summit, August 2026
  • “Generative AI and the Duty of Competence: Ethical Considerations for Legal Practice,” Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library, July 2026
  • “Out of Office: How AI Is Giving Legal Professionals Their Summers Back,” Clio webinar, June 2026
  • “AI-Powered Course Design: Evidence from Two New Legal Research Programs,” Teaching the Teachers 2026, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, May 2026
  • “Designing for Change: A Practical Framework for Teaching AI-Augmented Legal Research,” SEAALL Institute, Duke Law School, May 2026
  • “The New Way to Analyze, Research, and Draft with AI,” Clio Legal AI Advantage Summit, December 2025
  • Generative AI for lawyers, Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum, December 2025 (with Mark Williams)
  • Introduction to generative AI, Estate Planning Council of Chattanooga, November 2025
  • “New Frontiers: Using AI Responsibly,” Nashville Bar Association Estate Planning and Probate Institute, October 2025 (with Kyle Turner)
  • “V(AI)LL in Action: Designing Your Own AI Workshop Series,” Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, June 2025 (with Kyle Turner)
  • “V(AI)LL in Action: Designing a Workshop Series for Academic Librarians,” SEAALL Annual Conference, March 2025 (with Kyle Turner)

Invite me

I build sessions for bar associations, firms, and library and legal education programs, from a single CLE hour to a full-day workshop. Email me at emily.pavuluri@vanderbilt.edu, or learn more about the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab at ailawlab.org.