If we focus on our clients’ needs, we won’t hesitate to use the best tools available. Just as Ozempic saves lives, legal AI tools can improve outcomes. This is how we advocate for change in our system.
I currently work in reporting and automation (i.e. I write code all day). I’m also a law student. I LOVE AI.
The key is to use it intelligently. If I use AI to help generate code, I read the code and make sure I understand what it’s doing before using it. If I don’t understand some part of it, I spend time reading documentation to make sure I know what’s going on.
Same in legal field, I believe you need to know how to write a good brief before using AI to do it for you. Then you know what to look and can make corrections as needed.
How much of this do you think applies to those who are still students - either law students or undergraduate students? I'm a very pro-AI professor, but I still struggle with how best to teach my students about it because I think to use it well, you need a level of expertise in your field that they aren't likely to be ready for, at least until near graduation. And yet a part of me keeps thinking that being a student is a kind of job, too, and requires its own kind of expertise that can and should be built much earlier. Do you think there is a way to teach students how to use AI for the things they ARE qualified to use it for without inadvertently interfering with their learning in those areas where it would be better for them to go without it for a while?
Hey Daphne, Great question. And, I admit I don't have a definitive answer, but I think students are much more open to using AI, but have the same tension in talking about how much they use it. I think the way to teach them is to integrate AI into how we teach them the expertise rather than ensuring they are qualified first before using AI. I think we can frame it as a feedback loop where AI takes a wonderful hand at helping to teach them the expertise that they will wield to better use AI tools. I share some of this approach in my GenAI law textbook. Here's a link: https://books.lawdroidmanifesto.com/3/generative-ai-and-the-delivery-of-legal-services
If we focus on our clients’ needs, we won’t hesitate to use the best tools available. Just as Ozempic saves lives, legal AI tools can improve outcomes. This is how we advocate for change in our system.
I currently work in reporting and automation (i.e. I write code all day). I’m also a law student. I LOVE AI.
The key is to use it intelligently. If I use AI to help generate code, I read the code and make sure I understand what it’s doing before using it. If I don’t understand some part of it, I spend time reading documentation to make sure I know what’s going on.
Same in legal field, I believe you need to know how to write a good brief before using AI to do it for you. Then you know what to look and can make corrections as needed.
How much of this do you think applies to those who are still students - either law students or undergraduate students? I'm a very pro-AI professor, but I still struggle with how best to teach my students about it because I think to use it well, you need a level of expertise in your field that they aren't likely to be ready for, at least until near graduation. And yet a part of me keeps thinking that being a student is a kind of job, too, and requires its own kind of expertise that can and should be built much earlier. Do you think there is a way to teach students how to use AI for the things they ARE qualified to use it for without inadvertently interfering with their learning in those areas where it would be better for them to go without it for a while?
Hey Daphne, Great question. And, I admit I don't have a definitive answer, but I think students are much more open to using AI, but have the same tension in talking about how much they use it. I think the way to teach them is to integrate AI into how we teach them the expertise rather than ensuring they are qualified first before using AI. I think we can frame it as a feedback loop where AI takes a wonderful hand at helping to teach them the expertise that they will wield to better use AI tools. I share some of this approach in my GenAI law textbook. Here's a link: https://books.lawdroidmanifesto.com/3/generative-ai-and-the-delivery-of-legal-services