12 seats
Live in Hermosa Beach
In the room with Shemia and Matthew for two full days. Bring your laptop; you build on your own files.
Claude Cowork · 2 Days · Hermosa Beach · Live or Livestream
Claude Cowork Masterclass
October 8–9, 2026 (Thursday–Friday)
8:00 AM – 6:30 PM Pacific · Hermosa Beach, California
Two hands-on days with Shemia Fagan and Matthew Westerbeck putting Claude Cowork to work across your entire practice, from intake through trial.
Two ways to attend
In the room. Or connected to it.
12 seats
Virtual via livestream
The virtual experience is designed to keep you part of the room. While one instructor teaches, the other follows the Zoom chat, answers questions, and connects directly with those joining remotely.
Seats are limited to 12 live and 12 virtual. Registration and checkout are handled by Bizzabo; seats are confirmed by Trial Lawyers University.
About the Masterclass
Your practice.
Working smarter.
Winning cases isn't just about what happens at trial. It starts with how well you run everything that leads up to it. At this two-day TLU Intensive Bootcamp, you'll build with Shemia Fagan and Matthew Westerbeck to put Claude, and specifically Claude Cowork, to work across your entire practice. Claude Cowork runs on your own computer, works with your own files, and carries out real multi-step tasks from start to finish. It drafts and edits directly inside Microsoft Word and Excel. And through a Chrome extension, it can step into the web tools you are already logged in to, from your case management system to your court's e-filing portal and carry out work there on your behalf. Over two days you will turn it into a working member of your team, one that takes on the work that quietly eats your week so you can spend your hours on strategy, clients, and trial.
Shemia Fagan will show you how she uses Claude in a live plaintiff's employment practice to manage over 200 cases across multiple states. A trial lawyer and Managing Partner of five offices for HKM Employment Attorneys LLP, she uses Claude across the full arc of every case. The specific workflows Shemia has built give plaintiff's lawyers a real edge against the corporate firms on the other side, and for that reason she shares them only with the lawyers in the room. Matthew Westerbeck, an AI consultant with Westerbeck Consulting, LLC, will show you how to set Claude up, connect it to the tools you already use, and build it around your own procedures so it works the way your practice works.
This is not just a bootcamp. It is how you level the playing field against the corporate firms and insurance defense teams who have always outnumbered and outspent you.
Claude in Trial
Claude in trial.
Shemia just finished her first jury trial with Claude in the room. "Game changer" does not cover it.
Every trial day ends with a transcript that lands in your inbox and mostly sits there. Shemia used hers as the engine for the next morning. Overnight, Claude turned each day's transcript into what she needed for the next: cross-examination scripts built off testimony that had just happened, impeachment material pulled straight from the pages where a witness said something different under oath, and a running check on every claim opposing counsel made against what the record actually showed.
When she needed to know exactly what a witness or the judge had said, word for word, Claude searched the transcript and answered with the page and line, not a guess. More than once, it caught her own mistakes before they went into a filing.
That is the difference between reading a transcript and using one. Shemia will walk you through exactly how she built this into her trial practice, so you can build the same thing into yours.
What You’ll Learn
Claude, working the way
your practice works.
This is a hands-on masterclass designed to help you build and implement your own workflows. Rather than learning abstract concepts, you'll work directly with the tools and leave with a clearer understanding of how Claude can be integrated into your practice immediately. You will learn:
Setup & Configuration
How to set up and configure Claude Cowork on your own computer, and connect it to the software and tools your firm already uses.
Built Around Your SOPs
How to organize Claude around your firm's existing processes and standard operating procedures.
The Full Case Lifecycle
How Claude can be used throughout the lifecycle of a case, from intake through trial preparation.
Firm Operations
How to incorporate Claude into the operational workflows that support a law practice.
Word & Excel
How to work with Claude inside Microsoft Word and Excel, drafting and editing directly in your documents.
Multi-Step Tasks
How to assign multi-step tasks and have Claude carry them through from start to finish, using your firm's own files.
Automation Opportunities
How to identify opportunities for automation within your current workflow.
A Live Practice, Live
How Shemia uses Claude within a plaintiff's employment practice managing cases across multiple states.
Systems That Stick
How to build systems that save time while remaining aligned with the way your practice already operates.
Student Prerequisites
Bring your laptop.
Build on your practice.
Before day one, set up a paid Claude subscription and download the Claude desktop app for Mac or Windows, which is where Cowork runs. Claude Pro covers everything in this masterclass. If you expect to put Claude to heavy use, Claude Max gives you more room before you reach usage limits. Bring your laptop and a clear sense of your standard operating procedures, so you can build around your real practice instead of a hypothetical. This masterclass is for every experience level, from lawyers who have never opened an AI to those already deep into Claude Cowork. Virtual attendees need a stable connection and a second screen or device for Zoom.
Your Instructors
In the room with you.
Shemia Fagan
HKM Employment Attorneys
I grew up in a small town in rural Oregon, the youngest of three kids. My two older brothers and I were raised by a single dad who struggled to make ends meet. I learned early how to grit my teeth, laugh through the hard stuff, and to never back down from a challenge. Today, I am a civil rights lawyer for employees, a recovering politician, and mom to two wildly cool kids. I "relax" by coaching girls basketball, weightlifting, and belting out every note of "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks into a karaoke mic.
Matthew Westerbeck
Westerbeck Consulting, LLC
I'm a senior humanitarian-sector professional with 10+ years building immigrant and refugee integration systems across state policy, federal contracting, and multi-state implementation. I now run an AI-forward independent consulting practice serving humanitarian-services firms, nonprofit leadership, and legal-services teams. I architected Oregon's HB 2508, the landmark refugee services statute, and led coalition campaigns that secured $25M+ in recurring state investments. What differentiates my consulting practice is applied AI fluency in a sector where most professionals are still AI-skeptical: I've built a three-tier data classification system and a client-facing AI Use Statement that govern how I apply Claude and other AI tools to engagements involving sensitive client and beneficiary data. I hold current Anthropic Education certifications, and I apply that fluency in real client work rather than treating it as a theoretical credential.
Dan Ambrose
Trial Lawyers University
I grew up in Birmingham, MI. I am the youngest of eight children and attended an all-boys catholic school my whole life until I went to college at the University of Michigan. I went to night school at Detroit College of Law. My dad, my uncle, two of my brothers, and sister were lawyers. My first job was cutting lawns at age 10. I started working for my brother as a house painter at age 12. When I was 16 I started my own painting business and continued throughout high school, college, and law school, and a few years after until I was 32. I practiced law for eighteen years in Michigan until ten years ago when my roommate from the Trial Lawyers College, Nick Rowley, encouraged me to move to LA to become a PI lawyer. The California Bar took me four tries. I moved to Las Vegas this past March. I have recently taken up pickle ball, skiing and golf. I also think I'm competitive at connect four, backgammon, chess, and ping pong.
At a glance.
- Dates
- Oct 8–9, 2026
- Hours
- 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM PT
- Location
- Hermosa Beach, CA, or livestream
- Format
- Hands-on, bring laptop
- Length
- 2 days
- Seats
- 12 live · 12 virtual
- Registration
- Via Bizzabo
Small group · Oct 8–9 · Hermosa Beach or livestream
Two days of hands-on,
small-group building.
Twelve seats in the room, twelve on the livestream.
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