Real estate attorneys juggle endless contracts, title documents, lender communications, and closing deadlines, often under intense time pressure. This webinar will show Illinois real estate firms how building and using a real-estate-specific library of AI prompts can simplify these repetitive tasks.
Join attorney Sara Hawes as she takes real estate practitioners through why they should consider using AI, AI best practices and tips, and demonstrates practical, ready-to-use AI prompts that will help law firms run their cases more efficiently.
Register for this event and you'll be entered in a raffle for a full-access ticket to ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago from March 25-28, 2026.
In this session you'll learn:
Why real estate attorneys should use AI, AI best practices, and AI safety tips
How AI is embedded into case management software and how that is superior to a non-integrated AI solution
How to use Knowledge Sources, a way to give AI access to specific content you want it to use when answering a prompt
How to access, add to, and use AI prompts in a prompt library and an in-depth demonstration of several real estate AI prompts
Webinar duration: 60 minutes. This webinar is eligible for CLE credit in Illinois. This webinar has been approved by the MCLE Board of Illinois Continuing Legal Education Department for 1.00 hours of General MCLE credit. Please self-report this course in the member portal.
Sara Hawes is Vice President of Legal Product at Smokeball and an attorney licensed to practice law in Illinois and Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University and her Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Sara practiced family law in the Chicago area for five years before joining Smokeball in 2015, where she has played a key role in developing legal technology solutions for law firms. Her work focuses on area-of-law–specific workflows within case management systems, document automation and template building, and the design of practical tools that improve efficiency in day-to-day legal practice.
More recently, Sara has led initiatives to research and develop applied AI prompts and workflows for Smokeball -using firms, helping attorneys integrate AI into their practices in a responsible, practical, and immediately useful manner.