AI in Legal Practice: Verification, Courtroom Admissibility Under the New Rules, and Ethics (2026 Edition)

Greg Siskind, Founding Partner | Siskind Susser, PC

Greg Siskind is the founding partner of Siskind Susser, PC, Immigration Lawyers and has been a leader in the national immigration bar and in legal technology innovation for more than three decades. He began practicing law at age 22, co-founded Siskind Susser in 1994, Visalaw Ventures in 2019, and IMMpact Litigation in 2020. A pioneer in applying technology and artificial intelligence to law practice, Greg launched the first immigration law firm website in the world in 1994, became the first lawyer in the world with a blog in 1998, and in 2016 became one of the first lawyers to publish artificial intelligence tools for both lawyers and consumers. He is the author of seven books and hundreds of articles and book chapters, has authored a number of immigration-related pieces of legislation, and has testified as an expert in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Immigration Subcommittee.

• Education & Credentials

Greg received his Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University in 1986 and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1990. He was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1990.

• Recognition & Leadership

Greg’s recognition for his work at the intersection of law, technology, and AI includes the 2024 AILA Technology and Innovation Award and the 2022 American Bar Association James E. Keane Award for e-Lawyering, an honor specifically recognizing leadership in the use of technology to deliver legal services. His broader honors include the 2020 Advocacy Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the 2022 Litigation Award (co-recipient) from the American Immigration Lawyers Association, recognition as a 2023 Who’s Who Legal Global Elite Thought Leader, and recognition as a 2023 Who’s Who Legal Thought Leader – USA – Corporate Immigration. He has been listed in the National Law Journal’s 2023 Immigration Law Trailblazers, Who’s Who in Corporate Immigration Law’s World’s Ten Most Distinguished Immigration Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America® in Immigration Law, Mid-South Super Lawyers, Business Tennessee magazine’s 150 Best Lawyers, and Chambers and Partners’ top 25 Immigration Lawyers, and is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He also received the 2018 International Medical Graduate Taskforce Roberta Freedman Lifetime Achievement Award. Greg was the first immigration lawyer ever photographed for the cover of the American Bar Association Journal.

• Professional Involvement

Greg has served on the American Immigration Lawyers Association Board of Governors from 2010 to present and currently serves as Chairman of the International Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee. He is a past Law Practice Division council member and chair of the Publications Board for the American Bar Association, roles that placed him at the center of national conversations about how attorneys adopt and ethically deploy new technology in their practices. He served as chairman of the IMG Taskforce, the physician immigration bar organization, for more than a decade, founded the immigration section of the Tennessee Bar Association, and is a member of the Memphis Bar Association. He is also one of the founders of Visalaw International, the global alliance of immigration lawyers.

• Experience

Greg co-founded Siskind Susser, PC – Immigration Lawyers in 1994, Visalaw Ventures in 2019, and IMMpact Litigation in 2020, building one of the most technology-forward immigration practices in the country. He has been at the forefront of legal technology and AI adoption for over thirty years: he created visalaw.com, the first immigration law firm website in the world, in 1994; launched Siskind’s Immigration Bulletin, the first electronically distributed law firm newsletter, the same year; became the first lawyer in the world with a blog in 1998; and in 2016 began publishing AI tools for lawyers and consumers, well before generative AI became mainstream. Through Visalaw Ventures, he is a co-founder of Visalaw.ai, a legal AI software company, and of book publisher Alan House, giving him direct, hands-on experience with the operational, ethical, and risk-management questions attorneys face when building or deploying AI in their practices. He is the author of seven books, including The American Immigration Lawyers Association Practice and Procedures Manual (the “AILA Cookbook”), the J-1 Visa Guidebook (published annually by LexisNexis since 1997), the Lawyers Guide to Marketing on the Internet (American Bar Association, three editions), The Employer’s Immigration Compliance Desktop Reference (SHRM), The Medical Waste Handbook (WestGroup, 1994), Immigration for Startups: A Guide for Founders, The Physician’s Immigration Handbook, and The I-9 and E-Verify Handbook, along with chapters in AILA-published volumes on immigration options for physicians, nurses, academics and researchers, religious workers, and investors. As a frequent commentator on legal technology and immigration policy, he is regularly interviewed by publications including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, NPR’s All Things Considered, Forbes, and Bloomberg.

Nicholas J. Schneider, Member | Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

Nick Schneider is a member (partner) with Eckert Seamans’ Intellectual Property Litigation and Commercial Litigation Groups, where he manages large, complex litigations implicating a wide range of intellectual property and commercial rights. He has litigated trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and employee mobility and noncompete cases across the country, serving clients that range from technology and manufacturing companies to entertainment, media, marketing, and staffing companies. His familiarity with both intellectual property and commercial litigation allows him to offer creative, customized, and business-first strategic advice to clients facing complex disputes. A nationally awarded and recognized litigator whose insights are regularly published in global legal publications including Law360 and Bloomberg Law, Nick is also a frequent lecturer on intellectual property and commercial litigation issues. He maintains an active pro-bono practice with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, counseling and educating creative entrepreneurs on intellectual property and commercial matters, and as a musician himself, he finds deep fulfillment in serving the creative community.

• Education & Credentials

Nick earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2013 and his B.S. from Northeastern University, cum laude, in 2009. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Vermont. His court admissions include the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

• Recognition & Leadership

Nick has been repeatedly recognized as a litigator. He received Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition for Appellate Practice and Commercial Litigation (2024–2026); was named a 2025 “Go To Intellectual Property Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly; was named among the Top 25 Media and Entertainment Attorneys of 2025 by Attorney Intel; received a 2024 Outstanding Faculty Award from the National Business Institute (and was previously recognized by NBI with a 2023 Outstanding Faculty Award); was recognized among Greater Boston’s Top Lawyers 2024 by Boston Magazine; was selected for inclusion in the inaugural issue of Boston magazine’s Top Lawyers 2021–2023; and was selected for inclusion in Massachusetts Super Lawyers – Rising Star, 2019–2025. While at Georgetown Law, he served as an Annual Review Articles Editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and was a nationally award-winning member of the Barrister’s Council’s Moot Court team. He is also a frequent commentator on LinkedIn, where his posts have received over 100,000 unique views and been featured by the LinkedIn Editors.

• Professional Involvement

Nick is affiliated with the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the New England Business Association. In the community, he serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Young Professionals Group. He maintains an active pro-bono practice through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He is a frequent lecturer and CLE presenter, having delivered programs for the National Business Institute, the Federal Bar Association, myLawCLE, and Eckert Seamans’ own Legal Essentials and Legal Update series on topics including trade secrets, modern trial skills, evidence presentation and admission, expert witness deposition and cross-examination, and intellectual property issues. His insights have been published in Law360, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, and Eckert Seamans’ Legal Updates, and he has been quoted in Law.com.

• Experience

Nick’s representative matters reflect his focus on intellectual property and commercial litigation. He obtained complete dismissal of a complaint against a national staffing company in a case involving breach of noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure claims and misappropriation of trade secrets. He attained favorable results for an industry-leading national materials manufacturer, securing a court order upholding its claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition against its largest regional competitor. He obtained injunctive and protective relief for a global media and entertainment company, preventing competitors from disseminating and using its confidential and proprietary business information and trade secrets. He defeated a motion for preliminary injunction seeking to bar a national staffing company from hiring an employee subject to a noncompete agreement, following two days of evidentiary hearings. He procured successful results for a regional manufacturer in litigation involving copyright and trademark infringement against a national web design and digital marketing company. He obtained the dismissal of a complaint filed against a national live entertainment production company by enforcing a dissolution agreement governing the post-business-divorce distribution and use of intellectual property and trade secrets. And he procured injunctive relief for a regional products distributor, enforcing noncompete and nondisclosure agreements and enjoining several former manager-level employees from unfairly joining a competitor.

SESSION 1 – AI and Ethics for Lawyers: Responsible Use Under the Model Rules | 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Practical guidance for meeting professional responsibility obligations when integrating AI into a law practice. Covers competence, confidentiality, and supervision under Model Rules 1.1, 1.6, 5.1, and 5.3, plus verification protocols, vendor due diligence, client disclosure, and recent decisions sanctioning attorneys for improper AI use.

BREAK | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

SESSION 2 – AI Evidence on Trial: Authentication, Daubert, and FRE 707 | 2:10pm – 3:10pm

A working framework for authenticating AI outputs and meeting attorney duties of candor when generative tools touch the record. Covers synthetic media, FRE 901 and the proposed Rule 901(c) deepfake standard, Federal Rule of Evidence 707, Daubert applied to algorithmic tools, and forensic detection of hallucinations and fabricated documents.