This talk will discuss how important AI is going to be for the legal profession in the future and include a live demo showing what AI can do. Mr. Christopher Cyrus and Mr. Richard Tsay will share their experience building AI tools, while Mr. Shawn Helms will provide a law firm partner’s perspective where clients are paying the firm to work through AI legal issues.

Shawn Helms is a Partner and co-founder of the AI Cross-Practice Group and co-head of Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice at McDermott Will & Schulte. He is a co-author of the 2025 book AI Law and Business.

https://www.mwe.com/people/helms-shawn-c/

Mr. Christopher Cyrus is Director of Westlaw, AI at Thomson Reuters. He is a co-author of the 2025 book AI Law and Business.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophercyrus/

Mr. Richard Tsay – Director of Knowledge Management, M&A/PE, McDermott Will & Schulte. He graduated from the Law School in 2019. 

https://www.mwe.com/people/tsay-richard/

This event is sponsored by The University of Chicago Law School's International Programs and International Law Society.

Lunch will be provided. Please submit dietary requests eight business days prior to the program to Aican Nguyen at aican@uchicago.edu. Although we will try to accommodate dietary needs, it is not guaranteed.