CLE Presentations & Speaking
CLEs for solo and small firm attorneys. Practical. Bar-compliant. No vendor pitches.
Operations, automation, and the ABA Opinion 512 framework. Available for CLE events, firm trainings, AILA chapter sessions, and legal conferences nationwide.
Available CLE Topics
Each session is tailored to your audience. Custom topics on request.
The 60% Problem: Why Solo Attorneys Spend Most of Their Day Not Practicing Law, and the System to Fix It
Most solo attorneys bill under 3 of every 8 working hours — that is the 60% problem. This vendor-pitch-free session breaks down why, across three missing operational systems (intake, follow-up, and deadline and billing hygiene), and walks attendees through a self-audit they can run on their own firm before they leave the room. No product pitch: a systems framework any attorney can apply, with or without hiring anyone.
- Identify the three operational leak points that consume non-billable time in a solo or small practice.
- Apply a self-audit to locate which leak point is costing their firm the most.
- Evaluate which fixes are safe to automate under ABA Model Rules 7.1–7.3, and which require a human in the loop.
The Deadline That Ends a Career. Building a Second Layer Under Your Calendar.
Missed deadlines cause 24.6% of all legal malpractice claims, and 31% for solos, ahead of any substantive legal error. This session covers what a second layer of deadline safety looks like in a one- or two-person firm, how status and matter-stage triggers surface work before it is late, and where the line sits between a system that reminds you and one that practices law. Systems surface and remind; your judgment decides every date.
AI and the Duty of Competence. What ABA Opinion 512 Actually Requires.
Learn what Opinion 512 says—and what it doesn’t. Find out what your state bar has added on top, how to evaluate a tool responsibly and document the decision, and which practical checklists you can take back to your firm.
AI Intake Without Violating Model Rule 1.6. State-by-State for Immigration Firms.
Built for AILA chapters and immigration sections. How ABA Opinion 512 and the AI guidance in the major bar jurisdictions (New York, Florida, Texas, California, Illinois) apply to multilingual, multi-channel client intake. What is required, what is recommended, and how to document the decision.
Client Communications That Run Themselves. Intake, Follow-Up, and the Morning Digest.
Hands-on workshop. Watch a real intake workflow. See a morning digest in action. Walk through the setup. Leave with a framework you can pilot next week. We demo LegalContext, but the pattern works on any stack.
The 5 Workflows Solo and Small Firms Should Automate First.
Survey-based workshop on what returns the most hours for the least effort. Real examples, named tools, and a prioritized list attendees take home. Covers intake, follow-up, morning triage, document generation, and re-engaging old clients.
Evaluating Legal Tech Without Getting Burned. A Framework for Solo and Small Firms.
Vendor-agnostic. The questions to ask every vendor. How to run a two-week pilot. The red flags that mean walk away. Real cost-benefit math, not marketing math. You leave with a practical checklist you can put to use right away.
Document Generation at Solo-Firm Scale. What to Automate and What to Leave Alone.
Where templating, document assembly, and AI-assisted drafting actually save time. Where they create more review work than they save. Covers engagement letters, intake packets, estate docs, and practice-area-specific artifacts. Tool-neutral. Every AI-assisted draft is exactly that: a draft, reviewed by the attorney before it goes anywhere.
Custom Topic for Your Organization
Have something specific in mind? We build custom presentations tailored to your bar association, section, or firm’s practice areas and tech stack.
About the Speaker
Dele Tosh
Founder of Protomated and the lead behind LegalContext, the operations assistant our engineering team built for solo attorneys. He spent 13+ years engineering systems for Fortune 1000 companies, built and sold a previous tech venture, and developed a working understanding of solo practice from hundreds of conversations about how attorneys actually spend their week.
Dele brings an engineer’s precision and a near-lawyer’s empathy to every presentation. Attendees leave with tools they can use that afternoon, not theory they forget by lunch.
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CLE events, firm retreats, bar association meetings, legal conferences. In-person nationwide, or via webcast.