The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that Chief Counsel Mark C. Palmer will present a session on “AI, Legal Advocacy, and the Power of Words” at Legal Geek North America, a leading legal innovation conference.
The presentation, which will be held on June 17, 2025, in Chicago, will explore how lawyers can pair emerging technology with the human touch to enhance advocacy and shape powerful arguments in the age of AI.
“Lawyers have a professional responsibility to stay up to date on how technology is being used in client advocacy,” Palmer said. “This session will explore how we can ethically and professionally harness AI to amplify the impact of our language in the pursuit of justice.”
Palmer has served as the Commission’s Chief Counsel since 2015. In this role, he promotes civility, integrity, and inclusion in Illinois’ legal and judicial systems and leads initiatives including the Commission’s statewide lawyer-to-lawyer mentoring program, courthouse professionalism training, and continuing legal education programs.
Palmer currently serves on the Illinois Supreme Court’s E-Business Policy Board and the Illinois Judicial Conference’s AI Task Force.
A recognized voice in legal technology, Palmer has spoken and written extensively about AI in the legal profession, for outlets such as the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, WGN Radio Legal Face-Off, and Attorney at Work.
In 2023, he was named a vLex Fastcase 50 honoree for his contributions to legal innovation.
About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
The Illinois Supreme Court established the Commission on Professionalism under Supreme Court Rule 799 to promote integrity, professionalism, and civility among the lawyers and judges of Illinois, to foster a commitment to the elimination of bias and divisiveness within the legal and judicial systems, and to ensure those systems provide equitable, effective, and efficient resolution of problems for the people of Illinois.
The Commission achieves this mission through professional responsibility CLE, lawyer-to-lawyer mentoring, legal professionalism programming, educational resources, robust communications platforms, and more. To learn more, visit 2Civility.org and follow us on LinkedIn.
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Laura Bagby, Communications Director
312-363-6209
laura.bagby@2civility.org
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