AI and Deepfakes “The Next Big Thing”

Houston Metropolitan Paralegal Association

Come join HMPA in exploring how AI has transformed the legal industry, from automation to court-accepted technology. Learn practical strategies for paralegals for authenticating digital evidence, detecting media manipulation, meeting admissibility standards, and challenging expert analysis – including a real-world deepfake insurance fraud case study.

Learning Objectives:

1. Analyze how artificial intelligence has reshaped legal practice, including document automation, predictive analytics, e-discovery, legal research, and emerging court-accepted technologies, while recognizing the ethical and evidentiary risks created by AI-generated or AI-altered content.
2. Apply practical paralegal strategies for authenticating digital evidence by evaluating source data, metadata, chain of custody, preservation methods, corroborating records, and indicators of media manipulation, including deepfakes, synthetic audio, altered images, and AI-generated documents.
3. Assess admissibility challenges involving AI and digital evidence by identifying relevant authentication, reliability, and expert-witness standards; preparing questions to challenge expert analysis; and applying these concepts to a real-world deepfake insurance fraud case study.

CLE Hours = 1 Technology