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“AI-driven Legal Apprenticeships” [Kubicki] plus other AI & legaltech related postings

On 06/26/2023, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Access to Justice (A2J), Alternatives, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, change, changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, corporate / business world, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future, game-changing environment, generational differences, ideas, instructional design, IT in HE, law schools, learner profiles, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, lifelong learning, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, society, the downsides of how people use tech, tools, trends, United States, vendors, Virtual courts and law firms, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, workplace, by Daniel Christian

AI-driven Legal Apprenticeships — from thebrainyacts.beehiiv.com by Josh Kubicki

Excerpts:

My hypothesis and research suggest that as bar associations and the ABA begin to recognize the on-going systemic issues of high-cost legal education, growing legal deserts (where no lawyer serves a given population), on-going and pervasive access to justice issues, and a public that is already weary of the legal system – alternative options that are already in play might become more supported.

What might that look like?

The combination of AI-assisted education with traditional legal apprenticeships has the potential to create a rich, flexible, and engaging learning environment. Here are three scenarios that might illustrate what such a combination could look like:

- Scenario One – Personalized Curriculum Development
- Scenario Two – On-Demand Tutoring and Mentoring
- Scenario Three – AI-assisted Peer Networks and Collaborative Learning:

Why Companies Are Vastly Underprepared For The Risks Posed By AI — from forbes.com by
Accuracy, bias, security, culture, and trust are some of the risks involved

Excerpt:

We know that there are challenges – a threat to human jobs, the potential implications for cyber security and data theft, or perhaps even an existential threat to humanity as a whole. But we certainly don’t yet have a full understanding of all of the implications. In fact, a World Economic Forum report recently stated that organizations “may currently underappreciate AI-related risks,” with just four percent of leaders considering the risk level to be “significant.”

A survey carried out by analysts Baker McKenzie concluded that many C-level leaders are over-confident in their assessments of organizational preparedness in relation to AI. In particular, it exposed concerns about the potential implications of biased data when used to make HR decisions.

AI & lawyer training: How law firms can embrace hybrid learning & development — thomsonreuters.com
A big part of law firms’ successful adaptation to the increased use of ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI, may depend upon how firmly they embrace online learning & development tools designed for hybrid work environments

Excerpt:

As law firms move forward in using of advanced artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT and other forms of generative AI, their success may hinge upon how they approach lawyer training and development and what tools they enlist for the process.

One of the tools that some law firms use to deliver a new, multi-modal learning environment is an online, video-based learning platform, Hotshot, that delivers more than 250 on-demand courses on corporate, litigation, and business skills.

Ian Nelson, co-founder of Hotshot, says he has seen a dramatic change in how law firms are approaching learning & development (L&D) in the decade or so that Hotshot has been active. He believes the biggest change is that 10 years ago, firms hadn’t yet embraced the need to focus on training and development.

From DSC:
Heads up law schools. Are you seeing/hearing this!?

Are we moving more towards a lifelong learning model within law schools?
If not, shouldn’t we be doing that?
Are LLM programs expanding quickly enough? Is more needed?

Legal tech and innovation: 3 ways AI supports the evolution of legal ops — from lexology.com

Excerpts:

Simplified legal spend analysis
Faster contract review
Streamlined document management

IAALS Releases National Framework for States to Create New Tier of Legal Professionals Who Can Offer More Affordable Legal Help [Montague]

On 06/16/2023, in Access to Justice (A2J), experimentation, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legislatures / government / legal, policy, society, by Daniel Christian

IAALS Releases National Framework for States to Create New Tier of Legal Professionals Who Can Offer More Affordable Legal Help — from iaals.du.edu by Kelsey Montague

Excerpt:

IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, announced today the release of its new report, Allied Legal Professionals: A National Framework for Program Growth. As part of IAALS’ Allied Legal Professionals project—which is generously supported by the Sturm Family Foundation—this report includes multiple research-informed recommendations to help standardize a new tier of legal professionals across states, with the goal of increasing the options for accessible and affordable legal help for the public.

“To hire a lawyer, people either need considerable money or have an income low enough to qualify for the limited legal aid available. The problem is that the majority of people in the middle class don’t fit into either of those categories, making access to legal services incredibly difficult,” says IAALS Director of Special Projects Michael Houlberg. “Even if every lawyer took on pro bono clients, it wouldn’t come close to addressing the need. And IAALS’ research shows that people who need legal help are open to receiving it from qualified and authorized providers who are not lawyers.”

DSC: I couldn’t agree more with this posting from Dan Linna!!!

On 06/08/2023, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, change, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), intelligent systems, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, United States, universities, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

We have a massive opportunity to transform law and legal services to better serve society. We MUST AUTOMATE the majority of what lawyers do today so that we can expand access to the law and justice for EVERYONE in the future.

We need to have REAL discussions about the impact of… https://t.co/1XdWoe7KYz

— Daniel W. Linna Jr. (@DanLinna) June 8, 2023

From DSC:
I put the following comment on Dan’s posting:

I couldn’t agree more Dan. Millions of people could benefit from the considered, careful research of — and eventual application of — technologies to significantly improve/impact access to justice (#A2J).

Also see:

Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law — from The Economist
Even if it doesn’t replace lawyers en masse

Excerpts:

According to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, a bank, 44% of legal tasks could be performed by AI, more than in any occupation surveyed except for clerical and administrative support. Lawyers spend an awful lot of time scrutinising tedious documents—the sort of thing that AI has already demonstrated it can do well. Lawyers use AI for a variety of tasks, including due diligence, research and data analytics. These applications have largely relied on “extractive” AI, which, as the name suggests, extracts information from a text, answering specific questions about its contents.

Ultimately this will be good news for clients. “People who go to lawyers don’t want lawyers: they want resolutions to their problems or the avoidance of problems altogether,” explains Mr Susskind. If AI can provide those outcomes then people will use AI. Many people already use software to do their taxes rather than rely on professionals; “Very few of them are complaining about the lack of social interaction with their tax advisers.”

Also see:

On @LawNextPodcast – NoellaSudbury, founder of @RasaLegal, on how technology can simplify criminal records expungement. https://t.co/3NAmLjLxqf pic.twitter.com/ge4pt1qgl2

— Bob Ambrogi (@bobambrogi) June 6, 2023

Every State Now Lets Schools Measure Students’ Success Based on Mastery, Not Seat Time [Stanford]

On 06/06/2023, in competency-based learning/education, education, education reform, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, legislatures / government / legal, teachers, teaching & learning, United States, youth, by Daniel Christian

Every State Now Lets Schools Measure Students’ Success Based on Mastery, Not Seat Time — from edweek.org by Libby Stanford; via EdTech Thoughts

Excerpt:

With the pilot project, Wyoming has become the final state to allow competency-based learning in some form, marking a historic point in a growing, albeit slow, movement in favor of a model that emphasizes students’ achievement rather than the set 13-year academic schedule. That movement—long championed by many high-profile education leaders—has seen a handful of states embrace competency-based education faster than others and uneven progress within those states.

In Wyoming, it’s part of a three-pronged effort to move the state toward what State Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder calls “student-centered learning,” which is heavier on personalized and project-based learning that emphasize the development of problem-solving skills and letting students test-drive different career pathways.

AI21 Labs concludes largest Turing Test experiment to date — from ai21.com
As part of an ongoing social and educational research project, AI21 Labs is thrilled to share the initial results of what has now become the largest Turing Test in history by scale.
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“The perils of consulting an Electric Monk” [Furlong] + other legaltech related items

On 06/02/2023, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, bots, intelligent systems, law schools, Legal operations, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, by Daniel Christian

The perils of consulting an Electric Monk — from jordanfurlong.substack.com by Jordan Furlong
Don’t blame ChatGPT for the infamous incident of the made-up cases. And don’t be too hard on the lawyer, either. We’re all susceptible to a machine that tells us exactly what we want to hear.

Excerpt:

But then the “ChatGPT Lawyer” story happened, and all hell broke loose on LawTwitter and LawLinkedIn, and I felt I needed to make three points, one of which involves an extra-terrestrial robot.

My first two points are pretty straightforward:

The tsunami of gleeful overreaction from lawyers on social media, urging bans on the use of ChatGPT and predicting prison time for the hapless practitioner, speaks not only to their fear and loathing of generative AI, but also to their desperate hope that it’s all really nothing but hype and won’t disturb their happy status quo. Good luck with that.
The condemnation and mockery of the lawyer himself, who made a bad mistake but who’s been buried by an utterly disproportionate avalanche of derision, speaks to the lack of compassion in this profession, whose members should pray that their worst day as a lawyer never makes it to the front page of The New York Times. There but for the grace of God.

Are you looking for evidence to support the side that’s hired you? Or are you looking for the truth? Choosing the first option has never been easier. It’s also never been more dangerous.

As referenced topic-wise by Jordan above, also see:

A lawyer used ChatGPT to prepare a court filing. It went horribly awry. — from cbsnews.com by Megan Cerullo

What I learned at CLOC 2023 — from alexofftherecord.com by Alex Su
This week I attended the premier legal operations conference. Here’s what I heard.

Excerpt:

Theme 1: Generative AI isn’t going anywhere
This was a huge theme throughout the conference. Whether it was vendors announcing GPT integrations, or panels discussing how to use AI, there was just an enormous amount of attention on generative AI. I’m certainly no stranger to all this hype, but I’d always wondered if it was all from my Silicon Valley bubble. It wasn’t.

What was driving all this interest in AI? Well, the ubiquity of ChatGPT. Everyone’s talking about it and trying to figure out how to incorporate it into the business. And not just in the U.S. It’s a worldwide trend. Word on the street is that it’s a CEO-level priority. Everywhere. So naturally it trickles down to the legal department.

We need to talk about ChatGPT — from mnbar.org by Damien Riehl

Excerpt:

How well do LLMs perform on legal tasks?

Personal experience and anecdotal evidence indicate that LLMs’ current state provides impressive output in various legal tasks. Specifically, they provide extraordinary results on the following:

Drafting counterarguments.
Exploring client fact inquiries (e.g., “How did you lose money?”).
Ideating voir dire questions (and rating responses).
Summarizing statutes.
Calculating works’ copyright expiration.
Drafting privacy playbooks.
Drafting motions to dismiss.
Responding to cease-and-desist letters.
Crafting decision trees.
Creating chronologies.
Drafting contracts.
Extracting key elements from depositions.

“Corporate legal departments see use cases for generative AI & ChatGPT, new report finds” + other legal/legaltech related items

On 05/27/2023, in bots, Canada, corporate / business world, innovation, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, Michigan, society, trends, UK, United States, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Corporate legal departments see use cases for generative AI & ChatGPT, new report finds — from thomsonreuters.com

New legal tech tools showcased at CLOC 2023 — from legaldive.comRobert Freedman
Innovations include a better way to evaluate law firm proposals, centralize all in-house legal requests in a single intake function and analyze agreements.

Guest post: CLOC 2023 – Key insights into how to drive value during changing economic times — from legaltechnology.com by Valerie Chan

Excerpt:

Typically, Legalweek has always been focused on eDiscovery, while CLOC was focused on matter management and contracts management. This time I noticed more balance in the vendor hall and sessions, with a broader range of services providers than before, including staffing providers, contracts management vendors and other new entrants in addition to eDiscovery vendors.

One theme dominated the show floor conversations: Over and over, the legal operators I talked with said if their technologies and vendors were able to develop better workflows, achieve more cost savings and report on the metrics that mattered to their GC, the GC could function as more of a business advisor to the C-suite.

AI is already being used in the legal system—we need to pay more attention to how we use it — by phys.org Morgiane Noel

Excerpt:

While ChatGPT and the use of algorithms in social media get lots of attention, an important area where AI promises to have an impact is law.

The idea of AI deciding guilt in legal proceedings may seem far-fetched, but it’s one we now need to give serious consideration to.

That’s because it raises questions about the compatibility of AI with conducting fair trials. The EU has enacted legislation designed to govern how AI can and can’t be used in criminal law.

Legal Innovation as a Service, Now Enhanced with AI — from denniskennedy.com by Dennis Kennedy

Excerpt:

Over the last semester, I’ve been teaching two classes at Michigan State University College of Law, one called AI and the Law and the other called New Technologies and the Law, and a class at University of Michigan Law School called Legal Technology Literacy and Leadership. All three classes pushed me to keep up-to-date with the nearly-daily developments in AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs. I also did quite a lot of experiments, primarily with ChatGPT, especially GPT-4, and with Notion AI.

Emerging Tech Trends: The rise of GPT tools in contract analysis — from abajournal.com by Nicole Black

Excerpt:

Below, you’ll learn about many of the solutions currently available. Keep in mind that this overview is not exhaustive. There are other similar tools currently available and the number of products in this category will undoubtedly increase in the months to come.

Politicians need to learn how AI works—fast — link.wired.com

Excerpt:

This week we’ll hear from someone who has deep experience in assessing and regulating potentially harmful uses of automation and artificial intelligence—valuable skills at a moment when many people, including lawmakers, are freaking out about the chaos that the technology could cause.

‘It’s a New Era for Legal Tech’ – Generative AI + The Law [Artificial Lawyer & Dan Katz]

On 05/22/2023, in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, innovation, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, tools, trends, UK, United States, vendors, by Daniel Christian

‘It’s a New Era for Legal Tech’ – Generative AI + The Law — from artificiallawyer.com by Artificial Lawyer (UK) and Dan Katz

A New Dawn of Legal Technology — from globalbankingandfinance.com
Is the legal function finally ready to embrace legal tech and unlock tangible business value?

Excerpt:

In the mid-1980s, a bright red computer terminal that provided lawyers with online access to case law was an iconic status symbol. The UBIQ terminal hooked lawyers up to the Lexis service, at the time one of the first legal technology systems, using full-text search capabilities to provide rapid access to information.
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It is extraordinary to consider what the legal industry could have achieved if the early adoption of legal tech had not stalled. Sadly, rather than being innovative and embracing the potential of digital records, the industry has underinvested in both legal technology and good data management for the past three decades. Generation after generation of lawyers have failed to take advantage of the power of legal tech to improve client services, reduce risk and enhance efficiency.

Also relevant/see:

Law Firm Newswire Launches Free AI Press Release Writer for Lawyers — from marketwatch.com

Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence — from bbc.com by James Clayton

Excerpt:

The creator of advanced chatbot ChatGPT has called on US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, testified before a US Senate committee on Tuesday about the possibilities – and pitfalls – of the new technology. In a matter of months, several AI models have entered the market. Mr Altman said a new agency should be formed to license AI companies.

Also related to that item, see:
Why artificial intelligence developers say regulation is needed to keep AI in check — from pbs.org

Excerpt:

Artificial intelligence was a focus on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Many believe AI could revolutionize, and perhaps upend, considerable aspects of our lives. At a Senate hearing, some said AI could be as momentous as the industrial revolution and others warned it’s akin to developing the atomic bomb. William Brangham discussed that with Gary Marcus, who was one of those who testified before the Senate.

We’re rolling out web browsing and Plugins to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week! Moving from alpha to beta, they allow ChatGPT to access the internet and to use 70+ third-party plugins. https://t.co/t4syFUj0fL pic.twitter.com/Mw9FMpKq91

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 12, 2023

Are you ready for the Age of Intelligence? — from linusekenstam.substack.com Linus Ekenstam
Let me walk you through my current thoughts on where we are, and where we are going.

From DSC:
I post this one to relay the exponential pace of change that Linus also thinks we’ve entered, and to present a knowledgeable person’s perspectives on the future.

Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe — from oneusefulthing.org by Ethan Mollick
We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

Every organizational leader and manager has agency over what they decide to do with AI, just as every teacher and school administrator has agency over how AI will be used in their classrooms. So we need to be having very pragmatic discussions about AI, and we need to have them right now: What do we want our world to look like?

Also relevant/see:

That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI — from technologyreview.com by Mat Honan
If you thought generative AI was a big deal last year, wait until you see what it looks like in products already used by billions.

Google is in trouble.

I got early ‘Alpha’ access to GPT-4 with browsing and ran some tests.

Here are 8 crazy things I found: pic.twitter.com/ndxKGSqlL0

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) May 7, 2023

What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective — from edsurge.com by Mary Jo Madda (Columnist)

VR system to be used to prepare crime victims for court [inavateonthenet.net]

On 05/11/2023, in A/V -- audio/visual, architecture, Legal operations, legislatures / government / legal, tools, training / L&D, UK, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, XR - extended reality, by Daniel Christian

VR system to be used to prepare crime victims for court — from inavateonthenet.net

Excerpt:

An innovative VR system is being used to help victims of crime prepare for giving evidence in court, allowing victims to engage with key members of the judicial process virtually.

The system, designed by Immersonal, is to be rolled out across 52 Scottish courts over the next year, with the technology also being piloted in the Hague as part of the International Criminal Court. The aim is to dissuade the fears and discomfort of victims and witnesses who may be unfamiliar with the court process.
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Here’s another interesting item for you…one that also may eventually be XR-related:
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“The future of artificial intelligence hangs in the balance.” The critical importance of what happens in and with Taiwan.

On 05/09/2023, in 21st century, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Asia, computer science, corporate / business world, disruption, emerging technologies, engineering, future, game-changing environment, global / globalization, Google, legislatures / government / legal, Microsoft, NVIDIA, United States, vendors, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
As Rob Toews points out in his recent article out at Forbes.com, we had better hope that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) builds out the capacity to make chips in various countries. Why? Because:

The following statement is utterly ludicrous. It is also true. The world’s most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility.

What’s more, that facility is located in one of the most geopolitically fraught areas on earth—an area in which many analysts believe that war is inevitable within the decade.

The future of artificial intelligence hangs in the balance.

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) makes ***all of the world’s advanced AI chips.*** Most importantly, this means Nvidia’s GPUs; it also includes the AI chips from Google, AMD, Amazon, Microsoft, Cerebras, SambaNova, Untether and every other credible competitor.

— from The Geopolitics Of AI Chips Will Define The Future Of AI
out at Forbes.com by Rob Toews

Little surprise, then, that Time Magazine described TSMC
as “the world’s most important company that you’ve
probably never heard of.”

From DSC:
If that facility was actually the only one and something happened to it, look at how many things would be impacted as of early May 2023!

DC: For people who are thinking of going to law school — do YOU know about these things? Go forth with your eyes WIDE OPEN.

On 05/09/2023, in business, Canada, career development, corporate / business world, Emotion, health, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legislatures / government / legal, trends, UK, United States, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Send in another victim of industrial disease — from jordanfurlong.substack.com
The legal profession is drowning in psychological and emotional distress. One change, right now, could help save the next generation of lawyers from the flood.

Excerpt:

But don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a problem just at Paul Hastings or in the AmLaw 100. It’s everywhere. Mental distress and emotional anguish are endemic throughout the legal profession, driven by pathologies inextricably intertwined with our malignant cultural impulses and exploitative business models. And it’s getting much worse, very fast.

Take a deep breath, and then work your way through this list of findings from seven separate reports into the legal profession’s state of mental and emotional sickness:

Massachusetts: 77% of lawyers reported burnout from their work; almost half thought about leaving their job. 40% considered leaving the profession entirely due to stress. 7% experienced suicide ideation in the weeks before the survey.
California and DC: Lawyers were twice as likely as the general population to experience thoughts of suicide, and those with high stress were 22 times more likely to have such thoughts.
Midsized law firms: Nearly 3/4 of lawyers, paralegals and administrative professionals at midsized law firms report feeling stress, burnout, or being overwhelmed in the past year.
Canada: 59% of legal professionals report psychological distress. 56% report burnout. 24% say they’ve experienced suicidal thoughts at least once since starting practice.
UK: 62% of lawyers have experienced burnout as a result of their work in the last year. 57% put “an unmanageable caseload” at the top of their list of stressors at work, followed by a lack of work/life balance (42%).
In-house counsel: Legal department lawyers face burnout and attrition internally, and supply chain issues and high inflation externally. “The environment legal departments are operating in now is an extremely challenging one.”
Law students: Over 75% reported increased anxiety because of law school-related issues; over 50% reported experiencing depression. A majority reported experiencing anxiety (77%), disrupted sleep (71%), and depression (51%).

Every one of the percentages laid out above is higher for new lawyers, higher for women, higher for visible minorities, and higher for members of the LGBTQ+ community. And all but one of these reports were released just in the first two months of 2023.

From DSC:
One of the enormous surprises that I learned about while working at a law school (from 2018-2021) is the state of mental health within the legal industry. It’s not good. Beware!

Students in college — or to anyone who is thinking about entering law school and then practicing some area of law — get educated on things. Talk to lawyers of all kinds — especially in the area(s) that you are thinking of going into.

Then go forward into your decision with your eyes wide open. Know that you will need to put up some serious boundaries; if you don’t do that, you too may suffer the consequences that many lawyers have had to deal with.

I caught up with an old college friend of mine a year or so ago. He was absolutely exhausted. He was emotionally at the end of his rope. He was the owner of his own law firm and was working non-stop. He didn’t want to disappoint his clients, so he kept saying yes to things…to almost everything in fact. He later got out of owning his own firm — thank God — and went to work for an insurance company.

Furlong: Law school curricula and bar admission programs in every jurisdiction should be upgraded, starting today, to include significant instruction to aspiring lawyers about the deadly serious threats to their lives and health posed by choosing a legal career.

I just want to pass this along because I don’t think many younger students realize the state of mental health and stress within the legal field. And while you’re reflecting on that, you should also pulse-check how AI is impacting the legal field. Along these lines — and also from Jordan Furlong — see:

In the post-AI legal world, what will lawyers do?
Legally trained generative AI will “free up” lawyers by taking away millions of hours of work. The profession’s future depends on what comes after that.

OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S. public education, starting now — from hechingerreport.org by William Hite and Kirsten Baesler
Personalized learning can restore public faith and meet the diverse needs of our nation’s students

Excerpt:

Across all socioeconomic and racial groups, Americans want an education system that goes beyond college preparation and delivers practical skills for every learner, based on their own needs, goals and vision for the future.

We believe that this can be achieved by making the future of learning more personalized, focused on the needs of individual learners, with success measured by progress and proficiency instead of point-in-time test scores.

Change is hard, but we expect our students to take risks and fail every day. We should ask no less of ourselves.

Fresh Voices on Legal Tech – New Podcast Interview Series [Kennedy & Mighell]

On 05/02/2023, in 21st century, Access to Justice (A2J), Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, career development, innovation, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, by Daniel Christian

Fresh Voices on Legal Tech – New Podcast Interview Series — from legaltechmonitor.com by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell

Here are the episodes so far:

Fresh Voices on Legal Tech with Kristen Sonday – Kristen talks about her platform at Paladin connecting lawyers to pro bono work; weighs in on ChatGPT, AI, tech adoption, and more; and shares her top tip for using technology in legal practice.
Fresh Voices on Legal Tech with Chase Hertel – Chase discusses his career path and offers tips for helping attorneys engage with technology to improve their practice. They dig into the potential uses and dangers of ChatGPT and other AI tech in the profession, discuss Chase’s work in immigration legal tech, and survey the outlook of legal tech’s future.
Fresh Voices on Legal Tech with Natalie Knowlton – Natalie discusses the current state of legal services, the justice gap, and ways technology is helping attorneys provide better and more affordable services to consumers.

An Open Letter from a Future Lawyer Now Studying for the Bar Exam

On 05/02/2023, in assessment, career development, higher education, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, student-related, by Daniel Christian

An Open Letter from a Future Lawyer Now Studying for the Bar Exam — from abaforlawstudents.com by Megan Parker

Excerpt:

The Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) spans two days, with closed-book testing comprising three components prepared by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

On the first day (a Tuesday), I’ll write six multistate essay exam (MEE) responses in the morning. The MEE questions can pertain to any one of the following areas of law: business associations, conflicts of law, constitutional law, contracts/sales, criminal law and procedure, evidence, family law, federal civil procedure, real property, secured transactions, torts, and trusts and estates.

In the afternoon, I’ll write two multistate performance test (MPT)responses that require composing two real-life practice documents from a “file” and “library” of approximately 25 pages each that I must read, analyze, and digest on the spot.

On the second day (a Wednesday), I’ll need to answer 200 multistate bar examination (MBE)multiple-choice questions covering six subject areas: constitutional law, contracts/sales, criminal law and procedure, evidence, federal civil procedure, real property, and torts.

Also relevant/see:

Q&A with a Bar Exam Tutor—Frequently Asked Questions about the Bar Exam — from abaforlawstudents.com by JD Advising

Excerpts:

What is the best advice for passing the bar exam the first time?

What everyone says is true: studying for the bar is a marathon, not a sprint. Investing the time early in your studies to be diligent and sticking to your study schedule will reward you in the long run.
Be Consistent
Take Care of Yourself
Make a Schedule
Use the Strategies That Work for You

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IAALS Releases National Framework for States to Create New Tier of Legal Professionals Who Can Offer More Affordable Legal Help [Montague]

AI21 Labs concludes largest Turing Test experiment to date [ai21.com]

“Corporate legal departments see use cases for generative AI & ChatGPT, new report finds” + other legal/legaltech related items

VR system to be used to prepare crime victims for court [inavateonthenet.net]

DC: For people who are thinking of going to law school — do YOU know about these things? Go forth with your eyes WIDE OPEN.

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