Best Practices: Integrating AI Into Legal Education

ABA Journal: “As a third-year law student, I’ve had a front-row seat to the artificial intelligence revolution in the legal field. This experience has helped me integrate AI into my research, writing and studying.

With tools like ChatGPT, Lexis+ AI and locally hosted large language models, law students have ample opportunities to embrace this revolution, rather than resist it.

I remember when OpenAI took the world by storm, releasing ChatGPT in November 2022. In my first round of on-campus interviews taking place in January, I asked one of the interviewing associates if their firm (an AmLaw 100 firm no less) had any plans to incorporate AI into their workflow in the upcoming years. His response was, “Anyone who tells you they plan to use the technology is lying.” This was surprising to me, as I had already embraced AI, using it as a study aid for my December 2022 finals.

Indeed, AI quickly made headlines in the legal world, notably when a New York attorney was sanctioned in 2023 for failing to verify the accuracy—or even existence—of cases cited by ChatGPT. Next, LexisNexis launched Lexis+ AI in October 2023.. Before that, I was using a lesser-known tool called Paxton AI.”

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