Presentations

Artifical Intelligence: What Lawyers Should Know

This presentation was made to the 2023 Advanced Business Law Conference on November 3, 2023.

Tezos and SmartPy: Accessible Smart Contracts on an Upgradeable Platform

This paper was written for the journal "Circuits" that is published by the Computer & Technology Section of the State Bar of Texas in November, 2021.

How Do You Incorporate an Entirely Digital Corporation? (Updated)

This version of the paper was updated to reflect the passage of the Wyoming DAO statute. The presentation of the paper was made on November 5, 2021 in Houston, Texas.

Blockchain-Based Limited Liability Corporations -- What Lawyers Need to Know

These are the slides for the presentation made to the Essentials of Business Law Conference on March 12, 2021.

Incorporating Entirely Digital Corporations

This paper was presented to the Essentials of Business Law Conference on March 12, 2021. A version of this paper was also published in the e-Journal Circuits in 2021.

Tectonic Shifts that Will Affect Your Career in Privacy and Cybersecurity

These slides were presented to the Houston Technology CSC Webinar for InfraGuard on Tuesday, October 28, 2020.

The Ethics of Open Source Software in Law Offices

This presentation was made to the North Dallas Bar Association on September 8, 2020.

Legal Use Case for Graph Databases

This set of slides describes why graph databases are more useful than relational databases for the practice of law, particularly for legal research.

What to Expect from the 2020 State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting On Demand

Reginald Hirsch and Ron Chichester discuss the State Bar of Texas’ plans for their first-ever virtual annual meeting.

Webinar (Video) on Understanding Bias, Privacy and Legalities About Artificial Intelligence

This video was made on May 18, 2020.

Understanding Bias, Privacy and Legality of Using AI

These are the slides to a webinar made on May 18, 2020 for an organization called "Artificial Intelligence in Telecom."

Know the Legal Issues Vital to a Successful Startup

This was a presentation to the Plano Software Entrepreneurs on December 4, 2019 in Plano, Texas and covered the key legal areas that software startups miss.

Corporate | AI Personhood

This article was submitted for publication in the December, 2019 issue of "Circuits," the newsletter of the Computer & Technology Section of the Texas Bar.

Understanding Bias, Privacy and Legality Associated with AI

This presentation was made to a group of Data Scientists and AI Engineers in Plano, Texas on October 7, 2019

Facebook’s Libra: What is all the Fuss About?

This article first appeared in the Summer issue of Circuits, the periodical of the Computer & Technology Section of the Texas Bar

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Digital Forensics

This presentation was made in the Woodlands, Texas on August 21, 2019 before a local group of certified computer forensic examiners.

Will Robots Take My Job?

This presentation was made before the Advanced In-House Counsel Seminar in San Antonio, Texas on August 8, 2019.

Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Industry

This presentation was made to the Natural Language Processing Group in Houston, Texas on June 29, 2019

AI and the Legal Profession

This presentation was made before the Annual Meeting of the State Bar of Texas on June 14, 2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: GDPR Hits Close to Home

This paper was first published in "Circuits", a newsletter of the Computer & Technology Section of the State Bar of Texas.