“Make sure you join a study group!” is great one size fits all advice that 1Ls hear all the time. Why? Because you’re there to be a cog in a Biglaw firm learn, and the immediate feedback, problem solving, and note-sharing opportunities of being in a study group are one of a kind. But holing yourself up with 3 other cohort members isn’t the only way to force title race and notice title schemas into your memory anymore. AI is being offered as an answer to your learning and practical needs. Students are starting to form groups meant to help them get the most out of the tech. Reuters has coverage:
Juan Ramirez Sierra expected about 50 people to show up at the first-ever event held by the newly established Artificial Intelligence and Law Society at the University of Miami School of Law last month.
Instead, 75 students packed in to hear a panel of law firm partners, academics and artificial intelligence companies discuss the ethical considerations of using AI in legal work.
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At least 16 schools have such groups, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, most founded within the past two years as future lawyers seek to understand the rapidly expanding technology and how it will affect their careers.
A push for AI societies makes sense considering the tech’s successes in legal learning and accreditation. Harvey is successfully setting up shop and anchoring its role as an educational tool for students and ChatGPT has been outperforming the average scores of bar takers since 2023. One student set up their AI society because “AI was obviously going to be a big part of the profession.” Just keep in mind that 2008 was obviously a good time to buy a house. As important as it is to stay on the top of trends in the industry, take the ever popular “AI is inevitable” rhetoric with several grains of salt — creating infrastructure centered on a tech industry that is “light years” from turning a profit screams of building a multimillion dollar home on a rapidly eroding sandbank. Except in this case, it’s multi billions. That said, AI is booming in the short term and not showing at least some literacy in the fad could look bad in an interview. Joining one of these societies is an easy line on the resume and who knows, you might even learn something while you’re a part of it.
Are you a law student in a law society? Putting a Large Language Model to work as you work toward your LLM? Let us know what it’s like at tips@abovethelaw.com.
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Law School AI Clubs Multiply As Students Brace For The Future [Reuters]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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“Make sure you join a study group!” is great one size fits all advice that 1Ls hear all the time. Why? Because you’re there to be a cog in a Biglaw firm learn, and the immediate feedback, problem solving, and note-sharing opportunities of being in a study group are one of a kind. But holing yourself up with 3 other cohort members isn’t the only way to force title race and notice title schemas into your memory anymore. AI is being offered as an answer to your learning and practical needs. Students are starting to form groups meant to help them get the most out of the tech. Reuters has coverage:
Juan Ramirez Sierra expected about 50 people to show up at the first-ever event held by the newly established Artificial Intelligence and Law Society at the University of Miami School of Law last month.
Instead, 75 students packed in to hear a panel of law firm partners, academics and artificial intelligence companies discuss the ethical considerations of using AI in legal work.
…
At least 16 schools have such groups, including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, most founded within the past two years as future lawyers seek to understand the rapidly expanding technology and how it will affect their careers.
A push for AI societies makes sense considering the tech’s successes in legal learning and accreditation. Harvey is successfully setting up shop and anchoring its role as an educational tool for students and ChatGPT has been outperforming the average scores of bar takers since 2023. One student set up their AI society because “AI was obviously going to be a big part of the profession.” Just keep in mind that 2008 was obviously a good time to buy a house. As important as it is to stay on the top of trends in the industry, take the ever popular “AI is inevitable” rhetoric with several grains of salt — creating infrastructure centered on a tech industry that is “light years” from turning a profit screams of building a multimillion dollar home on a rapidly eroding sandbank. Except in this case, it’s multi billions. That said, AI is booming in the short term and not showing at least some literacy in the fad could look bad in an interview. Joining one of these societies is an easy line on the resume and who knows, you might even learn something while you’re a part of it.
Are you a law student in a law society? Putting a Large Language Model to work as you work toward your LLM? Let us know what it’s like at [email protected].
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Law School AI Clubs Multiply As Students Brace For The Future [Reuters]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
