Extract from Christine Charnosky’s article “How Law Schools Are Preparing Students to Use Gen AI”
Law schools are ramping up their efforts to educate students about generative AI in a wide variety of ways, from helping them use it in the classroom to showing them how law firms are using the technology.
AI is a “game-changer,” Kent Zimmermann, a strategic advisor at Zeughauser Group, told Law.com. A lot of law schools are already making strides to address the technology, as law school graduates without that knowledge and skill set will soon be at a disadvantage as they enter the workforce.
For a law student in 2025, ignoring AI “is like a student in the 1990s refusing to use a computer,” said University of Houston Law Center Foundation Professor Seth J. Chandler, who recently launched a blog, “AI for Legal Education.”
“Any student not intensively using AI, where permitted, is putting themselves at a significant disadvantage,” Chandler wrote in his blog.
