Courses
Core Courses
Required Courses - must take at least 3 courses
| LAW-2970 | Twenty-First Century Legal Profession | 2 |
| LAW-2975 | Process Improvement and Legal Project Management | 2 |
| LAW-2156 | Legal Technology for Small Firm Practice | 3 |
| LAW-4009 | Generative AI and the Delivery of Legal Services | 2 |
Required Externship
Externships are a vital component of the Concentration. They enable students to connect their classroom work with practical experience and training in legal technology and innovation. The experience affords students the opportunity to reflect upon the career paths they may wish to pursue.
Concentrators must complete an externship or clinical requirement. The requirement may be satisfied by:
- Completion of an appropriate, minimum three (3) credit externship in a placement related to Legal Innovation and Technology through the Externship Program that has been approved by the LIT Concentration Director
- Completion of a non-credit summer or semester externship in a placement related to Legal Innovation and Technology that has been approved by the Concentration Director
- Completion of the Legal Innovation and Technology Clinic or Online Dispute Resolution Innovation Clinic
An approved externship waiver for qualifying students as approved by the LIT Concentration Director, such as part-time students with a full-time position already relating to Legal Innovation and Technology
Elective Course Requirements
In addition to completing the three (3) required courses and the externship requirement, students must take at least three (3) more courses, totaling at least seven (7) credits, that enhance their understanding of the changing nature of law practice.
Note that some elective courses may only be offered certain semesters or as Winter Intersession courses, and offerings may change from year-to-year. Please plan accordingly
Elective Courses:
| LAW-2998 | Artificial Intelligence and the Law | 3 |
| LAW-4002 | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and the Law | 1 |
| LAW-2945 | Business of Practice: Hit the Ground Running | 2 |
| LAW-2555 | Business Planning | 2 |
| LAW-2046 | Decision Making and Choice Management | 3 |
| LAW-2066 | Design Thinking for Lawyers and Business Professionals | 3 |
| LAW-2660 | Digital Evidence | 2 |
| LAW-2951 | E Discovery | 2 |
| LAW-2720 | Emerging AI Regulatory Frameworks | 2 |
| LAW-2170 | Emerging Issues in Information Technology & Transnational Business | 2 |
| LAW-2253 | Law Practice Planning: Law As a Career And an Enterprise (seminar) | 3 |
| LAW-2092 | Lawyers as Leaders | 2 |
| LAW-4010 | Modern LPS: Legal Innovation and Technology | 2 |
| LAW-2445 | Online Disupute Resolution for Adr | 2 |
| LAW-2911 | Privacy/Data Security | 3 |
| LAW-2958 | Problem Solving: Legal Writing And Research for Practice | 2 |
| LAW-2032 | Race, Ethical, AI and Cyber Civil Rights | 2 |
The LIT Concentration Director may allow other suitable courses, including appropriate entrepreneurial courses offered at the Sawyer Business School, to satisfy the Elective Course requirement on a case-by-case basis. Students wishing to register for approved elective courses offered at the Sawyer Business School may register for these courses using the JD Enrollment in SBS Graduate Courses form, which is found under the Academic Concentration/Specialization tab in Workday. Please contact the LIT Concentration Director to discuss this option before enrolling any course offered at the Sawyer Business School.
How to Enroll
Enrollment in the Legal Innovation and Technology Concentration is accomplished by filing a Notice of Concentration Enrollment form with the Office of Academic Services.
Concentration enrollment may occur as soon as a student completes the first year in law school in good standing.
The latest date students may enroll in a Concentration is October 1st for students graduating in January, and Feb. 1 for students graduating in May.
Formal enrollment in the Concentration is not complete until the Notice of Enrollment form is filed. Once enrolled in the Concentration, students will be invited to participate in a variety of programs and special events of interest in the area of legal innovation and technology. Concentration students will also be invited to relevant Advanced Legal Studies programs.
Students may also find it useful to join Suffolk’s Legal Innovation and Technology Student Association (LITSA).
Requirements
Continued enrollment in the Legal Innovation and Technology Concentration is contingent upon the student completing:
- The three (3) required, core courses, as listed under the Concentration’s Courses section;
- An externship in an approved, three (3) credit externship in some area of legal innovation and technology, or an exemption from the externship requirement, as granted by the Concentration Director(s) and/or the Administrative Director of Concentrations;
- At least three (3) Concentration elective courses, as listed in the Concentration’s Courses section;
- At least seventeen (17) credits in approved Concentration required, externship and elective courses by the time of graduation;
- Periodically reviewing the student's progress in attaining the requisite grade point averages with the Concentration Faculty Director; and
- Obtaining the Concentration Faculty Director's approval of the student's plan for completing the Concentration's writing requirement.
Upon completion of the required courses, elective courses, the externship, the writing requirement and total credit hours required by the Legal Innovation and Technology Concentration, enrolled students must complete and file a Notice of Concentration Completion form online.
The latest date students may file Concentration Completion forms is Nov. 1 for January graduates, and March 1 for May graduates.