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Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program

Continuing Legal Education Program

May 31, 2024

Date: May 31, 2024
Duration: 6 hours
Location: Sheraton Convention Center Hotel
San Juan, PR
Agenda: Agenda
Speakers:
  • James A. Heilpern, Esq.
    Chairman of the Board and President of the Judicial Educational Institute
  • Dr. David Dixon
    Director of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Global Higher Education
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Matthew Preston, Esq.
    Law Clerk to the Hon. Susan K. DeClercq
    U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Michigan
Registration: Registration Deadline:  Friday, April 26, 2024
Cancellation: On or before Tuesday, May 28, 2024, send an e-mail to: prd-cle-registration@prd.uscourts.gov
Notice from the Clerk: Notice from the Clerk No. 24-06: Continuing Legal Education Program on May 31, 2024

The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (“District of Puerto Rico”) is sponsoring a Continuing Legal Education Program (“Court’s Program”), to be held on Friday, May 31, 2024 at the Sheraton Convention Center Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This Court’s Program will be a one-day, six-hour program, to be offered free of charge to members of the Bar in good standing. Every effort will be made to obtain accreditation from the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s Continuing Legal Education Program.   

The CLE program will consist of the following lectures:

  1. Law & Corpus Linguistics
  2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law

Prior to submitting your registration application, be advised that:

  • Please click on the Court’s Program Registration Application link embedded in your e-mail invitation.
  • Each attorney must make his/her own reservation.
  • Attorneys must be in good standing to register (contact the Clerk’s Office Cashier at 787-772-3061 to verify status).
  • For accreditation from the Puerto Rico Supreme Court Continuing Legal Education Program, participants will be required to provide their registered “Registro Unico de Abogados (RUA)” number as part of the application.
  • Only attorneys with confirmed reservation may attend the Court’s Program.
  • Confirmed attorneys must commit to attend the full Court’s Program.
  • The deadline for reservations is Friday, April 26, 2024.
  • Attorneys with a confirmed reservation who fail to attend must explain their absence in writing.
  • Telephone calls for registration to the Court’s Program will not be accepted.

After the registration period has closed, the Office of the Clerk will send a confirmation notice to registered attorneys to the e-mail address listed in the CM/ECF System. Attorneys with confirmed registration must notify any cancellations on or before Tuesday, May 28, 2024, by sending an email to:
prd-cle-registration@prd.uscourts.gov.