A Florida lawyer who lets a client's AI-drafted filing slip past them now risks real sanctions, not just embarrassment.
Miami Dade College's Wolfson AI Center is opening a free, six-session AI clinic built specifically for that risk. "AI Clinic: Claude Edition" runs every Monday at noon starting October 5, live and virtual. It is Florida Bar CLE approved for 7.0 general hours, 1.0 ethics hour and 7.0 technology hours.
Why Now
The Florida Supreme Court amended statewide court rules this year. Attorneys and self-represented litigants must now certify that legal authorities cited in their filings are accurate. The court authorized judges to sanction filings containing fabricated or inaccurately cited cases, including ones generated by AI. The amendments took effect June 15.
District 7 Commissioner Raquel Regalado, a practicing attorney, helped shape the clinic's curriculum.
"I use it, I think it's important tool that we all need to learn to utilize correctly, but it also can provide some landmines," she said. "This is an opportunity to remove some of those landmines."
What the Six Sessions Cover
Registration is free and requires no coding experience, though a deeper dive requires a $20 monthly Claude Pro subscription. Session 1 covers Claude fundamentals and framing a personal "capstone project" lawyers will build across all six weeks. Session 3 focuses on client confidentiality and cybersecurity, including how to structure prompts so client-identifying information stays protected.
That session also addresses a problem Regalado says lawyers are already living with. Clients are arriving with AI-drafted legal arguments of their own.
"All of us are getting these emails from our clients, where they went on AI and they're telling us how to practice law," she said. "How do we disclose [using] it without losing credibility, because you don't want your clients to think that they could have done it."
Later sessions cover e-discovery and evidence review. A final build-and-showcase week closes the clinic, where participants present the capstone project they built across the course.
The Bigger Adoption Story
Regalado says some Florida firms are still hesitant, while others are racing ahead. Courts themselves are experimenting with the technology too, for case management and document review.
Demand from the legal profession is already visible at scale. A free webinar Anthropic sponsored for its "Cowork" legal plugin drew more than 20,000 participants in April. Anthropic Associate General Counsel Mark Pike called that number "absolutely insane."
"I've never seen a number like that for a legal session in my career," he said.
Regalado's takeaway for lawyers weighing whether to engage: the choice isn't really optional anymore.
"Attorneys are using it, governments are using it, everyone's using it," she said. "There's no going back."
What This Means for Miami
Florida's new certification rule turned AI competence from optional to a malpractice risk overnight. A free, CLE-approved clinic run out of Miami Dade College gives local firms a low-cost way to close that gap before a sanctioned filing forces the issue.
Six Mondays of hands-on training won't make every Miami attorney an AI expert. But it sets a baseline the rest of the state hasn't matched yet.