Prestigious Symposium On AI Lawyering Reveals Keen Insights Including The Ardent Debate On Whether To Use Generative AI In Law School Education

In today’s column, I will be providing commentary and coverage of a prestigious symposium on AI lawyering that was recently jointly undertaken by the Tsai Center for Law, Science and Innovation of the SMU Dedman School of Law and with Wake Forest Law via a special event entitled “AI Lawyering: Adapting to the Era of ChatGPT and Large Language Models”.

The range of topics encompassed at the symposium consisted of three major areas of focus: (1) AI in legal education, (2) AI in legal practice, and (3) AI as viewed from the bench, the ABA, and state bars. I participated as a speaker in the third session and will be sharing herein highlights of the entire event. All told this important get-together was an invigorating and notable confluence of perspectives by law firms, solo lawyers, legal practitioners, legal scholars/academics, and others stridently interested in the future of lawyering as impacted by AI.