While AI tools can help HR professionals improve efficiency in candidate sourcing, resume screening, interviewing, background checks, performance evaluations, salaries, promotions, terminations, and other employment decisions, AI has not replaced the need for human oversight to ensure compliance with antidiscrimination laws and an ever-growing list of AI statutes and regulations. The plaintiffs' bar is increasingly active and continues to develop novel litigation theories while courts and lawmakers create a patchwork of evolving case law and legislation.
Join experienced class action defense litigators Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Justin R. Donoho for a high-level breakdown of AI litigation in the employment context, including an analysis of key trends and decisions, developing legislation, and strategies for building an AI compliance toolkit.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn to analyze current litigation trends involving AI technologies and identify key employment-related court decisions and cases to watch.
- Understand the state-by-state legislative landscape and stay current on evolving AI regulations and compliance requirements.
- Apply best practices and risk mitigation strategies to protect your organization from AI-related employment liability.
Presenters:
Louis Nunez, CPCU, AU, ARM (Moderator)
Louis E. Nunez, CPCU, ARM, AU, AAI, AAM, and AIM, is a graduate of the College of Insurance (now St. John’s University) and holds BA and MBA degrees. Lou is a past president of the New York Chapter of the CPCU Society as well as a past chair of the Excess, Surplus, & Specialty Interest Group Committee. He is now retired after 48 years with the industry.
Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., J.D.
Partner | Chair, Class Action Defense Group
Duane Morris LLP
Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. is a Chambers-recognized workplace class-action defense litigator, an eight-time Law360 Employment Law MVP, nine-time recipient of BTI Consulting Group's distinguished Client Service All-Star Award, and a 2021 Legal 500 Hall of Fame inductee. Jerry is a partner at Duane Morris LLP, where he chairs the firm's Class Action Defense Group. Among his various cases, Jerry successfully defended the largest EEOC pattern or practice lawsuit ever prosecuted in the history of the Commission, the largest age discrimination collective action ever brought in Illinois, the first sexual harassment class action brought by a state attorney general in the United States, and the largest wage and hour class actions ever litigated in Florida, Illinois, and New York. A graduate of Washington & Lee University and the Northwestern University School of Law, where he has served as an adjunct professor for 35 years, Jerry is based out of Duane Morris' Chicago and New York offices. The author of eight books on the law, Jerry is often consulted by major news organizations for his views on significant court rulings and legal issues. In 2023, Business Today included Jerry in its rankings of the Top 8 Most Influential Labor & Employment Lawyers in the United States. Chambers selected him as one of the leading class action defense lawyers in its 2006 to 2025 rankings of U.S. lawyers and stated that "Maatman is absolutely phenomenal" and is "one of the top-class action minds in the country."
Justin R. Donoho, J.D.
Special Counsel
Duane Morris
Justin R. Donoho is a special counsel at Duane Morris and a workplace class action defense litigator focusing on defense of class actions involving issues relating to employment, technology, data privacy, and cybersecurity. Justin has defended companies faced with high-stakes, complex litigation matters for 15 years. He clerked for the Honorable William J. Bauer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Justin is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he has an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in computer engineering, and he is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Before law school, he served seven years as a manager and consultant to large international organizations' IT departments. Justin is the author of several publications on technology-related litigation, including multiple publications in each of the Journal of Robotics, AI & Law, Law360, and The Legal Intelligencer. One of his articles in the first of these publications, entitled, "Five human best practices to mitigate the risk of AI hiring tool noncompliance with antidiscrimination statutes," includes many of the same topics discussed in this webinar.