Talks
The AI-Powered Lawyer: Ethics & Innovation
Speaker: Dallas K. Mosier, Senior Counsel, Gesmer Updegrove LLP
Lawyers traditionally rely on training, experience, and collaboration to serve clients effectively. They navigate legal complexities while considering human factors, risk tolerance, and business context to provide comprehensive solutions. As AI rapidly advances in understanding both law and human behavior, it will likely surpass human capabilities in basic legal tasks soon, with complex functions following in the coming years.
The legal profession has always utilized external tools and partnerships. With the emergence of machine learning, LLMs, and AI systems, lawyers must adapt these technologies into their practice while balancing professional ethics and personal moral obligations.
Dallas will explore current AI applications, ethical considerations, and future implications for legal practice.
The New Frontier: Legal Challenges of Agentic AI
Speaker: Udi Nessimyan, Legal Tech Entrepreneur
The legal landscape faces unprecedented challenges as AI systems evolve from passive assistants to autonomous agents capable of independent decision-making. Unlike traditional AI, Agentic AI can take actions, interact with other systems, and make complex decisions without direct human oversight. This shift raises urgent legal questions about liability, regulatory compliance, contract enforcement, data privacy, and AI’s role as an economic or legal entity.
In this session, we’ll explore:
- Who is liable when AI acts autonomously? (Developers, users, or the AI itself?)
- Can AI legally enter contracts or commit crimes?
- How do existing laws apply to AI-driven financial transactions, surveillance, or cybersecurity?
- What happens when Agentic AIs interact, collaborate, or even “collude”?
- What legal frameworks are emerging to govern AI autonomy?
We might not have answers to these questions today, but we can and should have an insightful discussion.
Dallas K. Mosier
Senior Counsel, Gesmer Updegrove LLP
Dallas proactively collaborates with clients to form new entities, raise capital, protect intellectual property, prepare contracts, ensure compliance with evolving privacy and consumer protection laws, and position their companies for exit transactions.
With expertise spanning various industries—including SaaS, e-commerce, manufacturing, cannabis, and alcoholic beverages—Dallas provides strategic guidance to emerging and established companies, investors, and executives on business formation, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and licensing arrangements. His comprehensive approach equips clients with the tools they need to thrive in a competitive landscape.
Udi Nessimyan
Legal Tech Entrepreneur
Adv. Udi Nessimyan is a seasoned expert in Intellectual Property, Technology Law, Privacy, and Security Law. He began his career as the Legal Adviser to the Israeli Patent Commissioner. He later served as CIO of the Israeli Ministry of Justice, leading national digital transformation initiatives, including the e.gov.il platform.
Transitioning into the private sector, Udi worked as a technology law and government expert for Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he played a key role in cloud and cybersecurity strategies for the public sector. An entrepreneur at heart, he has founded multiple startups and is now focused on building secure and privacy-centric technologies for government, healthcare, and financial industries.
