Emerging AI Disputes: Perspectives from In-House and Outside Counsel - Oct. 7th, 2026

Location: Online via Zoom

Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am (Pacific Time)

Program Description:

This 60-minute program will help advocates and arbitrators understand emerging disputes involving artificial intelligence (“AI”). The discussion will focus on the legal issues at the core of those disputes—and what they demand from the advocates presenting them and the arbitrators who will decide them.

The AI cases dominating the headlines are consequential in their own right: they are setting the doctrinal baseline for training data, model outputs, and liability that later disputes may be measured against. But they are only part of the story. Other disputes reaching legal departments across the country include: AI tools that do not perform as represented, a model that drifts, data-rights fights over training inputs and model outputs, disputed service-level obligations, and liability claims based on AI-generated content. What unites the headline cases—and the everyday ones—is the tool itself, which creates new challenges of proof, discovery, and confidentiality for advocates and arbitrators alike.

This program brings together practitioners litigating leading AI cases, a renowned legal scholar exploring emerging tort and First Amendment questions, and in-house and legal-operations leaders managing AI issues in real time. Together, they will connect doctrine to practice: when AI disputes arise, why some are likely to land in arbitration, what evidence and expert issues will matter most, and what all this means for the advocates presenting cases and the arbitrators managing discovery and evaluating proof.

Key Benefits for Arbitrators and Attorneys:

Attendees will obtain a practical, front-line view of AI disputes from leading practitioners, a prominent legal scholar, and legal and operations leaders, including:

• An understanding of emerging AI disputes, including disputes relating to contracts, copyrights, trade secrets, libel, personal injury, and more.
• Insight into the current state of the law, including headline cases setting the doctrinal baseline and unsettled areas where advocates and arbitrators will be operating without precedent.
• A practical look at the AI disputes hitting legal departments, such as failed AI procurements, “AI washing,” output reliability, model drift, and the shortfalls of service level agreements (“SLAs”).
• A view from in-house and legal operations leaders on how AI is being used in high-stakes legal workflows and how that use may change the way disputes are investigated, defended, and proven.
• Guidance on challenges that AI brings to discovery and issues of proof, in both courts and arbitral forums.

Faculty:

Moderator
Amanda Main, Cooley LLP

Panelists
Bobby Ghajar, Cooley LLP
Gloria Lee, Chief Legal Officer, Everlaw
Eugene Volokh, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA; Affiliate, Stanford Law School, AI Initiative
Cecilia Ziniti, Co-Founder and CEO, GC AI

This webinar was developed by the American Arbitration Association’s AI Ambassadors on behalf of the Emerging AI Disputes Subcommittee.

CLE Information:

Cerifi LegalEdge is coordinating the application process for continuing legal education (CLE) credit on behalf of the American Arbitration Association. CLE credit has been requested in California, New Jersey and New York.

Approval and credit amounts are subject to each jurisdiction’s review and rules and therefore cannot be guaranteed or confirmed in advance. Final credit eligibility will be determined by the respective state CLE authorities upon review of the program and verified attendance.