Speaking & continuing legal education
The questions worth asking about new technology begin with the people who will use it—and the people it will affect.
I speak with lawyers and legal professionals about artificial intelligence, ethics, and the practical work of the profession. I’m a trial lawyer at Nessler & Associates and founder of Integrated Cognition. Both roles keep my attention on where technology helps—and where human judgment has to lead.
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01 Areas of conversation
Technology can change how legal work gets done. The useful discussion is what to use, where to be careful, and how to keep responsibility with the people doing the work.
Where generative AI may help with research, drafting, and routine workflows—and why every output still needs a lawyer’s evaluation. The starting questions are concrete: What information enters a tool? Who reviews its answer? What problem does it actually solve?
Confidentiality, accuracy, supervision, and human accountability are central to responsible adoption. Jonathan has presented on generative-AI ethics and was appointed to the Illinois Judicial Conference Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.
Past programs have explored blockchain, smart contracts, biometrics, and emerging legal technology. The through line is how a new system changes a lawyer’s obligations and a client’s experience.
His continuing-education record also covers medical evidence, pretrial requests to admit, motor-vehicle cases, and evidentiary issues at trial—subjects grounded in his work representing injured people and families.
02 Speaking record
Selected talks, panels, and interviews, shown from newest to oldest. Recent entries link to the organizer’s program or episode; earlier entries draw on Jonathan’s professional record.
Episode 22 of IICLE’s Cornered: Out of Court podcast, with an episode transcript.
Episode 154 of Mathew Kerbis’s Law Subscribed podcast.
Part of the ISBA continuing-education program “The Dawning of the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Promise or Threat to the Practice of Law?” The recording appears in ISBA’s 2025 Professionalism Bundle.
Part of the virtual CLE “Staying on the Cutting Edge – AI Foundations, Benefits and Ethical Issues.”
Central Illinois Paralegal Association, an affiliate of NALA.
Part of “Annual Abraham Lincoln’s Legal Legacy: Lessons for Today’s Lawyers – Science and Technology’s Rapidly Evolving Impact on the Law.”
Presented as part of “Blockchain for Lawyers.”
Presented at “Ethics Institute: Legal Tech.”
Presented at “Medical Evidence for Lawyers.”
Presented at the “Shotgun Seminar” in St. Louis, Missouri.
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