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Listen now to Ari Kaplan's conversation with Diane Homolak, the VP of Technology Solutions for Integreon, Sylvain Magdinier, an independent consultant specializing in legal transformation and innovation, and Gayle Gorvett, the CEO and Managing Director of GGorvett Consulting about their work developing the AI Risk Management Framework. They discuss how in-house counsel can use this framework to better approach AI risk assessment and governance and ways that legal teams are managing AI risk, along with privacy and cybersecurity. |
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The Reinventing Professionals podcast is designed to offer ideas, guidance, and perspectives on how to effectively navigate a perpetually shifting professional landscape, with a unique focus on the legal industry and the technology that is driving its evolution. Host, Ari Kaplan, is an attorney, author, and leading legal industry analyst. |
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Meet the 2025-2026 RAILS Fellows |
Please join us in welcoming our three RAILS Fellows for 2025-2026! If you'd like to support any of the Fellows with their projects, please email us at rails@law.duke.edu and we'll connect you. |
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Heidi Behnke
Heidi Behnke is the Statewide Project Manager for Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP). Her role involves monitoring milestones/benchmarks, creating budgets, resource assessment, strategic planning, and more for a wide variety of projects impacting GLSP's ability to impactfully serve and support Georgians with low incomes. This includes the incorporation of new technologies. Heidi holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute and a Masters of Science in Development Anthropology from the University of Durham (UK).
Fellowship Project
Heidi will review AI practices and pitfalls in their application to client intake systems. This work will culminate in a white paper and case study as she looks to apply findings in the real-world setting of GLSP. |
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Aparna Komarla
Aparna Komarla is the founder of Redo.io, where she leads the development of transparent, interpretable AI systems for justice reform in partnership with Stanford Law's Three Strikes Project and California's Office of the State Public Defender. Aparna has presented research at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) FAccT, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and the AI4A2J Workshop at the International Conference on AI and the Law (ICAIL). She was featured in Relativity's women in legal AI showcase.
Aparna holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis. Fellowship Project Aparna will research innovative AI applications for justice reform to help close California's second-chance gap. |
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Judge Marty McGee
Judge Martin B. (Marty) McGee is a North Carolina Superior Court Judge with 25 years of judicial experience. He is a court technology leader in the areas of remote proceedings and the intersection of the courts and GenAI.
Judge McGee is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, B.A.; Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D.; and Duke University School of Law, Master of Laws.
Fellowship Project
Judge McGee will develop a model administrative (standing) order that provides a framework for the ethical use of GenAI in legal proceedings, which can be modified to suit the needs of individual courts. Judge McGee will access frontier model GenAI tools for his experimental learning, interview GenAI thought leaders and practitioners, and build upon his groundbreaking GenAI order (July 23, 2024), which has been called "the genAI standing order nationwide most protective of fairness at trial." He will also produce practical scholarship, participating in continuing legal and judicial education programs to further the reach of his work. |
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