Kenneth A. Grady
@LeanLawStrategy
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the firm and let lawyers practice law. Trying, in a law school setting, to give law students more than a sensitization to law as a business isn't really feasible. One class that gives an overview should be enough. (I recognize the legal reg issues here.)
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The question I think you are asking: Should law school be more of a trade school or more of a traditional college school? It is hard to be both. In the categories you mention (mid- big-law), I think the real issue is that firms should let professional managers run ...
@mikewhelanjr The several job categories is true! The example I shared was for a class where the students were targeting mid-size to biglaw jobs. Perhaps not every law grad needs this - just the ones going into that segment. But even with that, too few school offer curriculum for this. I am
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power of AI, these differences could have a real impact on results depending on use cases. The speed of change will make it hard to keep up or stay ahead for long (the cost of next gen AI may come down quickly just as the cost of memory dropped). Since there will be no ...
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architectural problems (the dead end, so researchers are now pursuing other architectures). We will see AI schisms develop in the market. The AI you use may be based on an approach less developed than the AI I use (your tech uses GPT-2, my tech uses GPT-4). Due to the ...
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I agree, but I'd add some nuances. LLMs are becoming a dead end on the AI tree of life. They face practical problems (training data limits, and in fact shrinking amounts of training data compared to two years ago), structural problems (hallucinations, bonehead errors), and ...
Adoption is inevitable. Adoption won’t follow past patterns built around gaining early adopters and trying to grow from there. Product life cycles in legal, which have generally been unbearably long will quickly become distressingly short. Every legal tech tool will quickly
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careful about choosing which apps to pursue with current AI. Understand well its limitations.
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It is a dead end. * Building useful apps off the current model is proving much more difficult than the early cheerleaders suspected. What now? * Neurosymbolic logic seems to be the favored flavor for the next round of AI development. * Lawyers and firms should be very ... 3/
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* Training new models requires more data than is available (and data available is shrinking for a variety of reasons). * New models will not do away with the hallucination or bonehead error problems. * The limits of the current approach have become more apparent. 2/
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Back when all of the hullabaloo began in the legal industry after ChatGPT, etc, came out I (and some others) raised a skeptical eyebrow. If it seems to good to be true, it probably is. Well, now it appears the main approach underlying the current AI wave is foundering. 1/
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Or another justification to push forward with modern amphibious car development ...
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combination of academic/formal and practical/informal skill training. Coop programs, apprenticeships following degree, etc. Academic institutions are not great at teaching "how" (doctors do residency programs). Let's rethink legal ed.
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from LLB to JD occurred in the 60s because lawyers felt inferior to MDs). With that in mind, shouldn't we restructure legal ed? Students need to learn theory and fundamentals, but then we need ways to teach practical skills. If we look around, that probably means a ...
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That's the standard line many of us have said. But if you think more deeply about it, most academic programs don't teach you how to do, they teach you theory and fundamentals. Law schools, though they grant "doctorates" are really bachelor degree programs (the change ...
Law schools should be teaching law students skills like collaboration, communication, matter and document management, transactional skills (document drafting, review, negotiation). Too often law schools focus their curriculums on the past rather than the present and the future.
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Unpopular view: The "winners" are all the tech companies/individuals promoting AI; the losers are everyone (even the winners).
The AI Revolution Is Here. Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in Legal Services? ALM https://t.co/5K50oZAbiU Good discussion and IMO, no one yet knows the answer.
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What do we mean when we say undergraduates today have it easier than in days gone by? W.H. Auden, 1941, 2 credit hour course at UofMich, Fate and the Individual in European Literature - 6,000+ pages of reading. https://t.co/W4sQHvAVbQ
Are you hardcore enough to handle W.H. Auden's reading list for 1941 University of Michigan undergrads? Over 6,000 pages of material. One semester. Including the complete texts of: - Brothers Karamazov - Moby Dick - The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
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If so, though I probably won't live to see it, process management and lean thinking will have prevailed in law.
@lawheroezV2 Lawyers may largely become general contractors who oversee teams of skilled artificial laborers
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From an article written by a physician/professor at UPenn medical school: "Flexner was a non-physician commissioned in 1910 by the Council on Medical Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ..." Exceptionalism exists in all professions.
“Non-Lawyer” is part of the lexicon of #LawyerExceptionalism. Ever hear of a “non-accountant”, “non-architect”, “non-teacher” even a “non-doctor”? No? That’s of course because #LawLand is “special”. Whenever you hear a lawyer use “non-lawyer”, ask if they are a non-human,
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Hey Josh, you missed a line: "Called our insurance carrier and told them what I had done. They said they'd be dropping us and, by the way, we should expect lawsuits against us to go up a thousand-fold."
BigLaw Partner: "One of our clients is a former associate and is now the GC. We have an awesome relationship and get tons of work." "They started using [a GenAI tool] over the last year." "Our work has easily been cut in half." "Last week I used [GenAI] tool to write a legal
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And a sensei has you do things and gives you feedback on how you can improve.
Difference between a consultant and an advisor? Consultant shows you how to think about doing some things. Advisor shows you how to do things.
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