Professor & Director of Applied Innovation, LexLab at UC Hastings Law
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2016
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I could create a course for law students around this idea. They would learn both the tech and the requirements of citation while automating the Blue Book for the rest of us.
Fun Fact (?): The year I was E-I-C of the YLJ, it was our turn to update the BB. Talk about tedious!
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Proactivity in embracing generative AI provides the legal profession with a unique opportunity to forge a path to reforms that will allow us to be relevant and respected in the future.
The general statements below could have been written specifically for law.
We’ve barely begun to grapple with the impact AI will have on law, legal institutions, and legal services. More importantly, we need to chart a course proactively for how AI can be used to transform law, legal institutions, and legal services to improve the rule of law and access to justice for everyone.
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Twenty years ago legal education determined that students must first learn to use books and pocket parts before they could use computers for research. That lasted for only a couple of years before everything started with computers. Regarding AI, the best question is, how can we use AI to accelerate the best of the learning students experience in law school? We’ve barely scratched the surface of that question. If we go down the path of banning AI, we will miss and delay important opportunities for our students, our research, and the law itself.
I tested this tool and it would be very helpful in addressing the A2J crisis if it is freely available! Maybe taking it to legal aid orgs and law school clinics would be a good place to start bringing awareness of it to those in need of help.
Here's a custom version of ChatGPT offering basic legal information and referrals to available resources: chat.openai.com/g/g-80NJ7RLw…….Assuming tools like this could be made freely available, how helpful would they be in addressing the A2J crisis?
I agree with this insightful essay. A change to traditional law firm structure is just a matter of time now that GAI is readily available for legal research, document drafting, and other legal tasks.
bloomberglaw.com/product/bla…
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This week, LexLab Welcomes Eight Startups to its Inaugural Justice Technology Accelerator Program! Clearbox, Cover | Counsel, Freedom, Layman, Ltd., Level, Litigation Friend, Namesake Collaborative, & Societal Systems.
Read more: lexlab.uclawsf.edu/2023-09-0…
Bloomberg @business recognized @uclaw_sf with an innovation award for my Concentration in Technology and Innovation that launched in 2022.
Bloomberg has shined a spotlight on the tech & innovation concentration at @uclaw_sf! Check out more below.
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Lawyers are 50th highest on the study's list of occupations that may be impacted by LLMs; Law Teachers are 5th 😱
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Calling all justice tech startups! Applications for our Justice Tech Accelerator at LexLab are still open and will run through July 31st. Gain mentorship, funding, and visibility to make a positive impact on the justice system! #JusticeTech #LegalTech abajournal.com/web/article/u…
"It is interesting that most of the commentary on the impact of AI on the law has focused on what this means for lawyers and judges.... Lawyers and the media would do well to ask more often what generative AI mean for access to justice and for the client community generally."
Here are six thoughts on the current and future use of AI in the law - linkedin.com/pulse/ai-law-si… via @LinkedIn
Generative AI holds the potential to substantially reduce our Access to Justice problem- but only if lawyers let it happen.
Years ago I started using a 4 box to describe all #LawLand does w/ bottom activity based boxes fostering culture charging for activity/inputs rather than results/outputs. I argued then & maintain now, the top right box holds highest customer value & lowest activity, while content would become free or near free. LLM/GAI will enable that transition.
The impact from the speed at which AI is developing is hard to know, but the legal profession can’t afford to ignore it any longer.
As I teach my students: “The survey highlighted clients’ wish for their lawyers to be ‘business savvy’. “This shows that whilst legal expertise is the top driver, it is not sufficient on its own. It’s the other aspects of the relationship that will enable true differentiation.”
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LexLab had anther successful Demo Day for both students and legal tech founders:
uchastings.edu/2023/05/08/le…
To understand how quickly our world is being transformed by LLMs and their applications, I recommend reading this entire thread:
Foundation models are transforming society: in the past month alone, we've seen a flurry of releases!
GPT-4, Claude, PaLM API, Alpaca, Dolly, Jurassic-2, PaLM-E, GPT4All, Cerebras-GPT, OpenFlamingo, ...
We built Ecosystem Graphs to track their footprint:
crfm.stanford.edu/ecosystem-…
“In ’Tomorrow’s Lawyers’ , I identified new jobs for lawyers, including risk management, design thinking and data science. In the 2020s, specialists in these fields will develop the systems that will replace lawyers’ old ways of working.
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It's always so rewarding when a startup that has participated in the LexLab accelerator achieves wider recognition! Congratulations to CaseYak for winning a finalist spot in the ABA TechShow Startup Pitch competition. We'll be rooting for you on March 1!