About Jonathan Nessler

Jonathan T. Nessler is a trial lawyer based in Springfield, Illinois. He is a practicing attorney at Nessler & Associates.  His practice is focused on personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation arising from automobile collisions, medical malpractice, nursing-home negligence, and premises liability. 

In addition to his trial practice, Mr. Nessler is the founder of Integrated Cognition, LLC, a company that helps law firms and small-medium sized businesses deploy artificial intelligence solutions to enhance business operations.  AI solutions operate to enhance efficiency rather than a substitute for human judgment. By integrating these tools into daily workflows, Mr. Nessler aims to shorten litigation and other work product timelines, reduce client costs, and elevate the overall quality of legal work product.

Mr. Nessler earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois in 2004 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2007, beginning the practice of law the same year.  Peers have recognized his legal work: The National Trial Lawyers lists him among the Top 100 Trial Lawyers and the Top 40 Under 40; The Chicago Law Bulletin identifies him as an Emerging Lawyer, a designation reserved for the top two percent of Illinois attorneys under forty; and a Leading Lawyer.  He has served in the Illinois State Bar Association Assembly, is a Barrister member of the Lincoln-Douglas American Inn of Court, and is admitted to practice throughout Illinois, the United States Supreme Court, and the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern, and Northern Districts of Illinois.

The Supreme Court of Illinois has appointed Mr. Nessler to the Illinois Judicial Conference Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, the body charged with charting how the state courts will regulate and deploy AI; he also presents continuing-legal-education programs on generative-AI ethics and practice for bar associations across Illinois.  Mr. Nessler advises law firms and small businesses on the safe integration of artificial-intelligence tools into routine workflows.

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SPEAKING EVENTS AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES

  • Speaker at the “Motor Vehicle Crashes from Occurrence to Trial – Plaintiff and Defense Perspectives,” February 15, 2012

  • Speaker at the “IICLE Pre-Trial Preparation in Civil Practice Seminar – Requests to Admit or Deny,” March 30, 2012

  • Moderator and Speaker at the “Advanced Evidentiary Issues at Trial,” January 31, 2013

  • Speaker at the “ITLA Workers’ Compensation Seminar – Traveling Employees & Venture-Newberg, Perini, Stone & Webster v. IWCC,” November 2, 2013

  • Speaker at the “Shotgun Seminar” Presented by the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Education Fund in St. Louis, Missouri – “Common Carrier Liability,” September 25, 2015

  • “Lawyers in Small Firms and Solo Practice Must Understand Technology that Impacts the Practice of Law,” Published in The Bottom Line, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on Law Office Management & Economics in September of 2017

  • Speaker at the “Medical Evidence for Lawyers” Presented by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education - “Securing Medical Records and Opinions, Conducting Discovery, Disclosure Requirements and HIPAA Issues,” November 3, 2017

  • Speaker at the Lincoln-Douglas Inn of Court - “How Technologies Like Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain are Disrupting the Practice of Law and Why Lawyers Should Care,” November 15, 2017

  • Speaker and Moderator for “Ethics Institute: Legal Tech” Presented by IICLE - “Emerging Technologies that are Predicted to Disrupt the Legal Profession,” June 6, 2018

  • “What Every Lawyer Lawyer Should Know About the Internet of Things,” Published in The Bottom Line, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on Law Office Management & Economics in June 2019 

  • “Law Firms Must Be Cautious About the Handling and Storage of Biometric Data,” Published in The Bottom Line, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on Law Office Management & Economics in September 2019

  • Moderator “The Basics of Blockchain,” for Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, July 1, 2020

  • Moderator “An Introduction to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act,” for Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, August 26, 2020

  • Moderator “The Everyday Lawyer’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence & the Practice of Law,” for Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, April 12, 2021

  • “Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Understanding the Businesses Being Built on Blockchains,” Published in Legal Technology, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Associations Standing Committee on Legal Technology in September 2021

  • Speaker presenting “Blockchain for Lawyers,” Presented by the Illinois State Bar Association, “Digital Signatures, Smart Contracts, and Blockchain,” October 8, 2021

  • Speaker presenting “The Current State of Blockchain and Crypto Technology,” for Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, April 27, 2022

  • “GPT-3 and the Future of Legal Writing,” Published in Legal Technology, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Technology in December 2022; Re-Published in The Globe, Publication for the Illinois State Bar Association’s Section on International and Immigration Law

  • Speaker presenting “How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact Lawyers and the Legal Profession,” Presented by the Illinois State Bar Association, “Annual Abraham Lincoln’s Legal Legacy: Lessons for Today’s Lawyers – Science and Technology’s Rapidly Evolving Impact on the Law,” September 8, 2023

  • Speaker presenting “Artificial Intelligence in Law: Opportunities and Challenges for Attorneys, Paralegals, and Law Firms,” for Central Illinois Paralegal Association, an Affiliate of NALA, September 22, 2023

  • Co-Author Report on Artificial Intelligence to Illinois State Bar Association President Shawn Kasserman, September 27, 2023

  • “AI in Law: Revolutionizing Legal Practice with Advanced Tools and Large Language Models,” Trial Journal magazine - Winter 2024