Hotshot, the learning platform for lawyers, today announced the launch of its AI Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Lawyers CLE track. The program provides an efficient way for lawyers to adopt AI responsibly while earning ethics credits through short, engaging videos featuring expert perspectives from across the legal industry.
Unlike traditional CLE programming, the track delivers essential AI knowledge through a series of separate, short videos that lawyers can complete on their own schedule. The CLE track covers ethical and professional responsibilities, prompting essentials, and practice-area specific AI applications and considerations for transactional lawyers and litigators.
“Over the last two or so years, I've reviewed probably over 100 different videos, lessons, courses, and speeches about GenAI. Many are too complex for the everyday lawyer and others are too oversimplified. Hotshot's AI content strikes a perfect middle ground,” said Dyane L. O'Leary, Professor of Legal Writing and Director of the Legal Technology & Innovation Center at Suffolk Law, who is featured in several of the Hotshot courses.
“The legal profession is no longer turning a cold shoulder to the world of AI—it's eager for help molding old workflows into new powerful platforms. Just like GenAI legal tools themselves, these videos aren't a replacement for careful human experimentation and experience—but they're an excellent take-off runway,” O'Leary added.
Practical Training for Real-World Implementation
The AI Ethics track is the second CLE accredited program in Hotshot's AI offering, joining their GenAI Fundamentals for Lawyers track that qualifies for cyber or tech credits.
The new ethics track includes the following courses from Hotshot's AI topic:
- AI Ethics and Professional Responsibility: How legal ethics apply when using AI tools, covering competence, diligence, confidentiality, supervision, client communication, billing practices, and court requirements
- Prompting: A practical course on creating effective prompts for large language models, with a focus on legal applications. It covers the principles of effective prompts, including general rules, common pitfalls, and best practices
- AI for Transactional Law: Evolution, Risks & Future: AI's impact on transactional practice, current capabilities, limitations, and key risks lawyers should understand
- AI for Litigators: Past, Present, and Future: How AI is transforming litigation practice, with expert guidance on protecting confidentiality and avoiding over-reliance on AI outputs
Expert Insights from Industry Leaders
The courses contain insights from experts throughout the legal industry from top law firms, law schools, and companies such as Sullivan & Cromwell, Ford Motor Company, K&L Gates, vLex, Suffolk University Law School, Cooley, Gunderson Dettmer, Thomson Reuters, LegalOn Technologies, Boies Schiller Flexner, and Reed Smith.
“It's essential that lawyers and other legal professionals understand this technology and responsible use—which of course includes understanding use cases, risks, and ethical and professional responsibilities,” said Ed Walters, Chief Strategy Officer of vLex, who also appears in several of the courses. “This Hotshot offering is a great way to help achieve this goal—and it offers a more engaging way to earn CLE than traditional content on the market.”
Strategic Implementation for Risk Mitigation
Top law firms are implementing Hotshot's AI training in innovative ways to ensure responsible technology adoption and mitigate risks. Some require completion of AI training before granting lawyers and professional staff access to firm AI tools, establishing competency baselines and reducing implementation risks. Others use Hotshot's discussion guides to run their own training sessions, combining the videos with organization-specific policies and procedures.
This flexible, on-demand format addresses a critical challenge facing legal organizations: how to quickly get lawyers up to speed on AI's ethical implications and practical applications. The blended approach saves preparation time while ensuring consistent instruction on foundational concepts, allowing legal professionals to access training when they need it—whether preparing for AI tool implementation or addressing specific questions that arise in practice.
“At Hotshot, we’re focused on helping lawyers build their transactional, litigation, and business and tech skills through modern, engaging learning. AI is one of the topics our customers are most eager to provide training on, and this CLE track is designed to offer clear, practical guidance on AI ethics grounded in real-world use. We’ve worked closely with industry experts to ensure the content is relevant, rigorous, and easy to fit into a busy schedule,” said Chris Wedgeworth, Hotshot Co-Founder.
About Hotshot
Hotshot is a learning platform for lawyers that supports on-demand, interactive, and experiential learning as well as CLE in nearly all MCLE jurisdictions. They offer 300+ short, practical courses and training materials across corporate, litigation, technology, and business topics. Hotshot's customers include half the Am Law 100 law firms, regional and boutique firms, top law schools, and companies. For more information, visit hotshotlegal.com.
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New offering adds to Hotshot’s growing collection of AI content to help train and educate lawyers and other legal professionals on AI and its implications on law and practice.
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Ian Nelson, Co-Founder, ian@hotshotlegal.com
