AI Insight on the Big Stage
From ILTACON workshops to ABA Techshow deep dives, Sean translates hype into useful strategy.
ILTACon 2025, Washington DC, 2025
Prompting Workshop
Sean and Andy Kim provided attendees training on how to prompt effectively for AI platforms. This was not the typical prompting workshop where the speakers explain a slide deck. Sean made a custom interactive prompting app so that every attendee could practice prompting on real-world examples and get immediate feedback on ways to improve inside the app.
AALL Annual Conference, Portland, OR, 2025
“Benchmarking Legal AI” and “Practical Uses of AI”
A panel at AALL in Portland examined how to benchmark generative AI legal research tools, acknowledging that legal queries resist clean “right answer” metrics and that vendors’ multi-model “black box” stacks complicate apples-to-apples comparisons. Read more about this panel from Bob Ambrogi's LawSites coverage below.
CALICON, 2025
“The Problems with Benchmarking Legal AI” and “Vibe Coding & Beyond,”
Sean and Jonathan Franklin explained best practices for vibe-coding, including warning the attendees of the potential hazards. A full version of the presentation is available in the link below on YouTube.
More Contributions
Selected Presentations
• Pre-conference full-day workshop: Teaching the Teachers AI, AALL Annual Conference, Portland, OR, 2025.
• “Agentic AI & Law,” AI and State Legal Practice, Pittsburgh, PA, 2025.
• “Using AI for the Practice of Law,” National Association of Appellate Attorneys Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2025.
• “Generative AI: Unleashing the Potential While Minimizing the Risks,” National Association of Attorneys General Tech Bootcamp, online, 2025.
• “Quizbot and the Future of Legal Education” and “Fabricating the Reasonable Juror,” Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science Conference, ASU College of Law, 2025.
• “What does the future of AI in law look like?” Southwest Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference, 2025.
• “The Importance of Private Partnerships for Law Schools,” ABA Techshow, 2025.
Publications
• Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Document Review Section, 2025.
• Sean Harrington, Jonathan Franklin, Christine Park, “Evaluating the Evaluators - The Role of Benchmarks in Legal AI” AALL Spectrum, 2025.
• "Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education", SSRN, 2024.
• "The Case for Large Language Model Optimism in Legal Research from a Law & Technology Librarian", SSRN, 2023.
• "The Ultimate Study Partner: Using A Custom Chatbot To Optimize Student Studying During Law School", SSRN, 2023.
Professional and Community Associations
• OU’s AI Training and Teaching Working Group, Core Member, University of Oklahoma, 2025.
• OU AI Operations Working Group, 2024.
• American Association of Law Libraries, Legal Innovation and Technology SIS, 2024–present.
• American Association of Law Libraries, Innovation in Technology Award Jury, 2023–present.
• American Association of Law Libraries, LIT-SIS, Member at Large, 2023.
• Southwest Association of Law Libraries, Webmaster, 2020–2023.
