Legal Technology & AI Competence
When the Machine Cites a Case That Doesn't Exist
AI, candor, and the duty to verify the authority you put your name on.
Faculty · Andrew Leahey
Every lawyer has now heard the story: a brief full of cases a chatbot invented, and the sanction that followed. This program is not really about that story — it's about the oldest duty you carry, in new clothes: knowing that the authority you put your name on is real.
In one hour, Andrew Leahey — tax attorney, Bloomberg Tax columnist, and legal-technology builder — explains in plain English how large language models actually work and why they produce flawless-looking citations to cases that never existed; maps every headline AI scandal onto the duties you already carry (confidentiality, supervision, candor, competence, reasonable fees); walks the discipline already happening, case after case; and hands you a concrete six-step workflow to use these tools without fear.
Built for New Jersey attorneys and positioned for both ethics/professionalism credit and New Jersey's new technology-CLE requirement (effective January 1, 2027).
Watch before you enroll
The six-step verification workflow — a six-minute sample.
No sign-in, no progress tracking, and no CLE credit. This is a real segment from the paid program: the repeatable process and the reason each step exists.
The technology-credit course
On demand, but built for use on Monday.
New Jersey’s adopted rule requires one technology-related credit in each two-year cycle beginning with cycles that conclude December 31, 2027. This program is positioned for that category: generative AI, responsible operation, electronic legal research, and an internal verification policy are the course itself—not a passing example.
The Judiciary has offered excellent free live AI and cybersecurity programming. This course does a different job: Source Mode puts the authority beside the claim; a repeatable six-step workflow turns responsible use into a habit; the practice pack leaves you with artifacts for your own file; and recorded, on-demand access fits the hour you actually have. Final category allocation remains the Board’s decision.
How you’ll study it
Built for working lawyers, not passive viewers. Every program includes:
Counsel’s Notebook
Capture any passage as you watch — the exact words, the moment in the record, and the authority on point — add your own annotations, and export a Word-ready research memo.
The Reader’s Cut
Read along in a clean, synced transcript that follows the audio, chapter by chapter. Click any line to return to that moment on the video.
Smart Session Docket
Tell it how much time you have and it finds the natural stopping point that fits — study in the gaps between calls, never mid-thought.
Source Mode
Every authority the program relies on, surfaced the instant it’s cited and gathered into a downloadable bibliography.
Trust dossier
Receipts for the promise.
Current through: July 20, 2026. The date describes the law reviewed for this edition, not merely the day the video was uploaded.
The faculty
Andrew Leahey is a New Jersey-admitted tax and technology attorney, Bloomberg Tax columnist, and legal-technology builder. The courses are taught from working practice, not read from a generic vendor outline.
Editorial rigor
Each script is checked against primary authority, put through a separate citation pass, recorded, transcribed, and checked again for anything the spoken version introduced or changed.
Source Mode
Authorities appear at the moment they matter, with the full citation and official source where available. Every enrollee can export a dated sources-and-authorities record.
Real participation
Playback is time-verified and punctuated by position-bound participation or comprehension checks. A login timestamp by itself never earns completion.
Materials worth keeping
Every published course includes downloadable written materials built as a working aid: verification checklists, timelines, source maps, and practical artifacts rather than a slide dump.
Corrections in the open
Send a suspected error to andrew@leahey.org. Substantive corrections are verified against the source, reflected in the maintained edition, and accompanied by a new current-through date; historical completion evidence is never rewritten.
Accreditation & credit
Provider: Minimum Competence CLE · Recorded, on-demand (an alternative verifiable learning format) · 50minutes of instruction. Credit is calculated from instructional minutes at each state’s credit-hour length.
- NJ
- 1.0 technology(50-min hour)
- Application pending
- NY
- 1.0 total potentially claimable(50-min hour)
- Unavailable until active NJ approval
- PA
- Below Pennsylvania’s 60-minute course minimum(60-min hour)
- Separate PA approval required
New Jersey accreditation is not yet active; credit figures are estimates and final category allocation is set by the Board.
New Jersey: recorded/on-demand credit is capped at 12 of the 24 credits per two-year cycle.
Certificates issue only on verified completion. Completion records are retained for at least four years.