LAW-4010 Modern LPS: Legal Innovation and Technology
Modern LPS: Innovation & Technology is a skills-based experiential course aimed at fine-tuning and expanding upon the basic practice skills learned in LPS, but through the angle of modern approaches and technology tools lawyers use to deliver legal services today. Students will receive hands-on practice with document automation, structure, and security; legal research analytics; Generative AI; E-discovery; "justice tech" and legal process improvements; the business of law practice; remote lawyering best practices; cybersecurity basics; and developing a modern online presence and social professional network. The class is a combination of group discussion, exercises, guest speakers, and workshops with minimal lecture. Students will complete several short and varied skills assignments throughout the course that cumulatively satisfy the law school’s general legal writing requirement.