Abstract
All lawyers are now digital lawyers. From Zoom hearings, to e-discovery, to AI-enhanced research and writing, the practice of law increasingly requires the skillful navigation of a wide range of technological tools. It’s no longer enough to be book smart and street smart. More and more, you also have to be byte-smart.
To help future lawyers navigate this transition, I recently created a course at both the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Chicago Law School called “Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI.” The course takes a skill-building approach to artificial intelligence. Which tools are worth using? What questions are worth asking? And how do advocates of all kinds continue to add value to clients—and promote justice—in a world increasingly populated by chatbots, algorithms, and a wide range of other powerful digital products?
This paper collects thoughts from the presentation about the course that I delivered at the "Law and Justice in the Age of AI" symposium organized by the Michigan Technology Law Review on November 18, 2023.
Disciplines
Communications Law | Legal Education | Legal Profession
Date of this Version
2-17-2024
Working Paper Citation
Barry, Patrick, "Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI" (2024). Law & Economics Working Papers. 271.
https://repository.law.umich.edu/law_econ_current/271