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This presentation will explain how FOIA litigation works, its purpose and benefits, pitfalls to avoid, and recommended strategies for obtaining materials that were not provided in response to a FOIA request. Additionally, it will cover attorney fees and costs, including which activities are recoverable as attorney fees and how judges have ruled in FOIA lawsuits.

Jordan Marsh, Attorney, Law Office of Jordan Marsh

In today’s increasingly global business environment, understanding apostilles and legalizations has become a valuable skill for paralegals. This presentation will cover the foundational concepts of document authentication, with practical guidance to help paralegals confidently navigate these processes in their day-to-day work.

Krista Abair, Product Manager, Capitol Services

U.S. immigration law continues to undergo rapid and consequential changes in 2026. Participants will gain an overview of critical updates in asylum law, changes to work authorization processes, evolving eligibility requirements for green cards, and the latest developments affecting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Recent policy shifts have placed increased emphasis on enforcement, fraud detection, and stricter adjudication standards, all of which directly impact the work of immigration legal teams.

Daphnee Camilien, Managing Attorney, Camilien Law

As organizations grow across jurisdictions and digital systems multiply, maintaining corporate structures and governance records has become increasingly complex. Artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful tool to help corporate paralegals manage entity records, board materials, regulatory filings, and compliance obligations.

At the same time, organizations must implement AI governance frameworks to ensure oversight, regulatory compliance, and accountability for AI-driven processes. Legal teams are increasingly involved in documenting AI use, establishing policies, and coordinating governance across departments.

This session explores how AI can support corporate governance workflows while introducing new responsibilities related to AI oversight, data minimization, and cross-functional governance and provides practical insights for managing corporate records and governance in an AI-enabled environment.

Doug Kaminski, Chief Revenue Officer, Infinnium

Legal practice no longer lives neatly inside four office walls. Today’s paralegals operate in digital, remote, and AI-assisted environments that move fast and expose real ethical risk.

This program examines how core professional duties apply in modern workflows, including confidentiality in remote and hybrid settings, responsible use of legal technology and cloud-based tools, and the accelerating presence of generative AI in legal work. Using real-world scenarios, the session connects emerging risks to foundational obligations such as competence, confidentiality, supervision and unauthorized practice of law, candor, and billing integrity.

Participants will leave with practical tools they can use immediately, including a simple decision framework for evaluating technology and AI use, checklists for ethically defensible workflows, and clear escalation language for raising concerns before problems become violations. The focus is not fear, but professional judgment, equipping paralegals to protect clients, preserve privilege, and deliver work that stands up to scrutiny in an evolving legal landscape.

Tracey N. Perkins, M.B.A., Founder & Chief Strategist, The ParaLeader™ Institute

When collateral is held in a trust, the Article 9 financing statement name and content requirements are not always intuitive. This seminar covers the most important issues that arise when preparing a financing statement for a trust-related transaction and offers best practice suggestions to avoid seriously misleading financing statements.

Paul Hodnefield, Associate General Counsel, CSC

This session provides a practical introduction to trademark and patent fundamentals, tailored for paralegals and those new to intellectual property. We will walk through the lifecycle of IP matters—from clearance and filing to prosecution and maintenance. We will also examine how AI is reshaping IP workflows, including research, drafting, and portfolio management, and introduce emerging tools that are enhancing efficiency and accuracy in modern practice. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of core IP concepts, day-to-day responsibilities, and how to effectively support IP teams in an increasingly technology-driven environment.

Candice Kwark, Attorney, Steptoe

he volume of digital evidence in modern litigation is exploding. Emails, chats, cloud documents, mobile data, and enterprise systems now produce datasets measured in terabytes or even petabytes. Artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the most powerful tools available to litigation teams facing this data challenge...but is it always the best choice?

Designed for paralegals and litigation support professionals, this session provides a practical overview of how AI technologies are applied in real litigation workflows, along with guidance on defensible practices, human oversight, views from the bench, and ethical considerations.

Attendees will gain a practical framework for understanding where AI adds value—and where human expertise remains essential.

Doug Kaminski, Chief Revenue Officer, Infinnium