Tommaso Ricci is a senior lawyer in DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property and Technology department and a recognized leader in legal innovation.
As project leader and inventor of Prisca, the world’s first AI-powered virtual assistant for GDPR and ePrivacy compliance, Tommaso combines legal expertise with a passion for coding to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and practical legal solutions. His hands-on experience building legal tech tools provides valuable perspective when evaluating and integrating AI solutions into legal workflows.
Tommaso leads DLA Piper’s Italian Legal Tech Ambassadors team and has developed multiple award-winning legal tech products. His work earned him the Top Legal 2021 Prize and national recognition for innovation in legal services.
As founder of the Young Legal Innovators community and a frequent speaker at international conferences, Tommaso helps legal professionals navigate the intersection of AI, privacy, and cybersecurity. He regularly mentors legal tech startups across the world, providing strategic guidance on market penetration and compliance challenges for tech-driven businesses.
Whether he’s swimming with sharks or navigating the murky waters of legal workflow innovation, Tommaso brings unwavering curiosity and strategic thinking to every adventure.
Session Overview
Beyond the hype: A Lawyer’s Guide to Choosing AI Tools that Actually Work
In an era where AI promises to revolutionize legal practice, the critical question isn’t whether to adopt AI, but how to choose the right tools responsibly. With growing regulatory pressures around data privacy compliance and mounting concerns over AI hallucinations and uncontrolled legal outputs, legal departments face the complex challenge of balancing innovation with risk management.
This session presents a comprehensive framework for AI tool evaluation that goes beyond vendor promises to deliver strategic, evidence-based selection methodologies. Attendees will learn how to develop robust benchmarking criteria that assess not only functionality and efficiency gains, but also critical factors like data privacy, bias mitigation, hallucination detection, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
Through real-world case studies and practical evaluation matrices, we’ll explore how to establish governance frameworks that ensure AI tools meet the highest standards of client confidentiality, transparency, and professional accountability while preventing uncontrolled legal activities. The presentation will equip legal leaders with actionable methodologies to assess AI vendors against measurable criteria including explainability, auditability, and alignment with existing legal workflows.
Walk away with a proven evaluation framework that transforms AI adoption from risky experimentation into strategic advantage, ensuring your organization selects tools that enhance legal delivery while maintaining the integrity and ethical standards essential to legal practice.
Three Tangible Learnings
1)Strategic AI evaluation framework: master systematic methodologies for benchmarking AI tools against organizational needs, regulatory requirements, and risk tolerance.
2)Risk-aware selection criteria: develop comprehensive assessment matrices that evaluate AI tools for data privacy compliance, bias detection capabilities, and transparency features.
3) Implementation governance: establish robust oversight mechanisms and human review protocols that ensure AI-generated outputs meet professional standards.
Think First, Prompt Second: Essential Skills for AI-Augmented Lawyers
As AI transforms legal practice, mastering the cognitive skills that unlock AI’s true potential becomes our greatest professional advantage. Our profession is experiencing unprecedented transformation—client expectations are evolving, colleague collaborations are shifting, and the legal marketplace is rewarding new forms of value creation. In this dynamic environment, the lawyers who thrive will be those who master the cognitive skills that complement rather than compete with artificial intelligence.
This session explores the essential cognitive skills that enable lawyers to excel in an AI-augmented world. We’ll examine how prompt engineering requires deep legal reasoning, lateral thinking, and strategic questioning—techniques that transform AI from a simple tool into a powerful collaborator. Through practical exercises and real-world scenarios, attendees will discover how to develop the cognitive habits that unlock AI’s full potential while strengthening their own analytical capabilities.
Walk away with a framework for developing the “thinking lawyer” mindset: how to craft sophisticated legal prompts that extract maximum value from AI while maintaining rigorous verification techniques that preserve your analytical independence. Learn to leverage AI as a strategic thinking partner while cultivating the cognitive oversight skills, systematic review processes, and professional judgment that ensure technology enhances rather than replaces your legal reasoning and problem-solving skills.
Three Tangible Learnings
1) Prompt mastery through legal reasoning: Learn advanced prompting techniques that require deep understanding of legal principles, enabling you to extract maximum value from AI while maintaining analytical control over outputs.
2) Cognitive resilience strategies: Develop cognitive techniques and thinking frameworks that strengthen your capacity for independent legal analysis, creative problem-solving, and strategic reasoning in collaborative AI environments.
3) Risk recognition and bias detection: Master the art of identifying AI hallucinations, biases, and logical gaps through systematic verification methods and critical evaluation techniques essential for responsible AI use.
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Tommaso Ricci is a senior lawyer in DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property and Technology department and a recognized leader in legal innovation.
As project leader and inventor of Prisca, the world’s first AI-powered virtual assistant for GDPR and ePrivacy compliance, Tommaso combines legal expertise with a passion for coding to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and practical legal solutions. His hands-on experience building legal tech tools provides valuable perspective when evaluating and integrating AI solutions into legal workflows.
Tommaso leads DLA Piper’s Italian Legal Tech Ambassadors team and has developed multiple award-winning legal tech products. His work earned him the Top Legal 2021 Prize and national recognition for innovation in legal services.
As founder of the Young Legal Innovators community and a frequent speaker at international conferences, Tommaso helps legal professionals navigate the intersection of AI, privacy, and cybersecurity. He regularly mentors legal tech startups across the world, providing strategic guidance on market penetration and compliance challenges for tech-driven businesses.
Whether he’s swimming with sharks or navigating the murky waters of legal workflow innovation, Tommaso brings unwavering curiosity and strategic thinking to every adventure.
