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• Pages: 4-4
• Date: 01 October 2025
• Published date: 01 October 2025
• Author: Marcy Hogan Greer
• Subject Matter: Derecho Público y Administrativo

4THE BRIEF ❭ Fall 2025

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PUBLISHE D IN THE BRIEF, VOLUME 55, NUMBE R 1, FALL 2025. © 2025 BY THE AME RICAN BAR ASSO CIATION. REPRODUCE D WITH PERMISSION . ALL RIGHTS RESER VED. THIS INFORMATIO N OR ANY

PORTION T HEREOF MAY NOT BE COP IED OR DISSEMIN ATED IN ANY FORM OR B Y ANY MEANS OR S TORED IN AN ELEC TRONIC DATABAS E OR RETRIE VAL SYSTEM WI THOUT THE EX PRESS WRIT TEN CONSEN T

OF THE AMERIC AN BAR ASSO CIATION.

On behalf of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice

Section (TIPS), its ocers, Council, committee chairs

and vice-chairs, sponsors, and dedicated sta, welcome

to the 2025–2026 American Bar Association (ABA) year.

Congratulations to Immediate Past Chair Chris Nolan on a

remarkable year culminating in a memorable Section Confer-

ence in Washington, D.C., that included an incomparable gala

honoring and featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya

Sotomayor, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Michelle Childs, and

our own Janet Hummons at the Smithsonian Institution’s

National Museum of African American History and Culture.

It was an evening we will never forget, and the most f‌itting

way to celebrate our 10 years of Section Conferences and over

90 years of being TIPS. Chris put heart and soul into achiev-

ing this outstanding event. Thank you, Chris.

This issue and past and future issues of The Brief highlight

some important aspects and impacts of artif‌icial intelligence

(AI) that are on everyone’s minds—whether you’ve embraced

AI (yet) or not. I also commend all of the articles in this

edition of The Brief to you.

We had an incredible panel on AI at the Section Confer-

ence in Washington, D.C., in May 2025, with Erin Cicarella,

Attorney Product Specialist–CoCounsel for Thomson

Reuters; Ginny Bonifacino, Nazareth Bonifacino Law LLC;

Melanie Bragg, Bragg Law PC; Jennifer Gibbs, Zelle LLP; and

Natasha Nazareth, Nazareth Bonifacino Law LLC, focusing

on ethically leveraging generative AI tools and providing

practical demonstrations and recommendations for internal

policies and disclosures. We had another outstanding panel at

the Fall Meeting in San Diego in October 2025, with panel-

ists Michelle Worrall, Global Director of Insurance Product

for Resilience; Helen Respass, Senior Managing Editor, Prac-

tical Law for Thomson Reuters; and Gabriel Buehler, Buehler

Law, PLLC, taking the next step to discuss practical use and

important testing and safety guardrails when using generative

AI in your organization, with emphasis on how to manage use

by employees, outside counsel, and vendors.

We are in active planning mode for our Section Confer-

ence in Austin, Texas, and look forward to seeing you then

and there—and hopefully sooner! We have some very special

local guests lined up—to be revealed soon, so stay tuned.

And we will celebrate our gala at the beautiful Bob Bullock

Texas State History Museum. Mark your calendars now for

April 29–May 1, 2026. Our Section Conference Cochairs,

Tracey Haley, Christine Forsythe, and Deb Smith, have been

working on the programming for several months now, and we

promise to deliver both fun and relevance from the Lone Star

State. There will, of course, be panels on generative AI—it is

coming up in every aspect of legal practice.

Finally, below is a reminder of the full calendar of

in-person meetings and stand-alone programs for 2026, and

we cannot wait to see you there too:

• January 21–23, 2026, Fidelity and Surety Law

Midwinter Conference, JW Marriott, Washington, DC

• February 6–7, 2026, ABA Midyear Meeting, Hyatt

Regency San Antonio Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX

• February 19–21, 2026, Insurance Coverage Litigation

Conference, Estancia La Jolla Hotel, La Jolla, CA

• February 20–21, 2026, 50th Annual TIPS Midwinter

Symposium on Employee Benef‌its, ERISA, and Life

Health & Disability Insurance, Estancia La Jolla Hotel,

La Jolla, CA

• March 5, 2026, Cybersecurity Conference, Kent

College of Law, Chicago, IL

• March 21–25, 2026, Trial Academy, Peppermill Resort

& National Judicial College, Reno, NV

• April 15–17, 2026, Motor Vehicle Product Liability

Conference, Omni Scottsdale Montelucia,

Scottsdale, AZ

• April 29–May 1, 2026, TIPS Section Conference,

Austin Marriott, Austin, TX

• May 13–15, 2026, Fidelity and Surety Law Spring

Conference, Hilton Sedona, Sedona, AZ

• July 29–August 4, 2026, ABA Annual Meeting,

Chicago, IL Z

TIPS, Your Go-To Resource for Navigating

Generative AI

By Marcy Hogan Greer