Supervisor of Training and Litigation Support, Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of New Jersey
Giselle Pomerleau, Esq. is the Supervisor of Training and Litigation Support for the Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of New Jersey, where she has been since 2010. She is a frequent presenter on the impact of technology trends in criminal defense practice. Giselle has... Read More →
Supervisor of Training and Litigation Support, Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of New Jersey
Giselle Pomerleau, Esq. is the Supervisor of Training and Litigation Support for the Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of New Jersey, where she has been since 2010. She is a frequent presenter on the impact of technology trends in criminal defense practice. Giselle has... Read More →
From Patterns to Precedents – Leveraging AI for Evidence-Based Systemic Reforms" is a Blue-Sky exploration of how artificial intelligence could drive meaningful change in the justice system. We’ll consider AI’s ability to analyze vast amounts of public defense and justice system data to uncover systemic issues such as racial disparities and sentencing inconsistencies. We’ll discuss possible ways to harness AI tools to build compelling, data-driven arguments for court, creating visualizations that effectively communicate complex patterns to judges and juries. Finally, we’ll discuss how, with enough data, predictive modeling could forecast the impact of proposed reforms, providing a solid foundation for advocacy efforts. Attendees will leave inspired to find and build the use cases that will lead to systemic reforms.
Cynthia “Cindy” M. Guerra. Esq., the Director of Support Operations and Assistant General Counsel in the Law Offices of the Public Defender for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, has been a Florida attorney since 1991. Having initially worked as Assistant Public Defender after... Read More →
Hon. Carlos J. Martinez, the Public Defender for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, manages the largest Public Defender's Office in Florida, with a $42 million budget and 400 employees handling approximately 65,000 cases each year. He has 30 years of management experience both... Read More →
Docket Time Entries While in Transit AI-powered transcription tools can help us record time entries hands-free while commuting after a full docket of hearings, ensuring we capture key updates on our cases so that our time entries are detailed and comprehensive, without having to wait for us to get back to the office, and without us having to deal with the friction of drafting formalized report writing. Just say what happened and what the details are and let the AI worry about formalizing your tone Summaries of Initial Jail Meetings We can quickly generate summaries from jail meetings that capture the core of each client’s story, initial legal questions, any hot button complicating issues (citizenship, parole holds) and other essential case info. This summary can then be directly added to the case file and be more thorough than notes written after meeting with several clients at the jail Summarizing Voluminous Adult Probation Reports When we receive lengthy probation reports, AI tools can produce summaries that distill critical insights and highlight potential areas to address, saving hours of reading and summarizing manually. Creating a Data Pipeline for Police Reports AI can create a structured, searchable tables from police reports, automatically extracting relevant details such as times, locations, and key witnesses, enabling a more efficient review process across cases and allowing us to move that data into our case management systems without having to type a word
