Article
I found this article, regarding the new role of technology in a post pandemic law school, particularly interesting. Firstly, the piece considers not only the practicalities of online learning but has a real focus on the impact of students losing the personal relationships, interactions and campus experience inherent to in person education. Secondly, the essay is written by a lecturer, adding a fascinating angle of personal experience and impact. Koenig provides a fast and easy to work that I would highly recommend taking the less than 5 minutes needed to digest. https://www.legalcheek.com/lc-journal-posts/law-schools-and-the-role-of-tech-in-a-post-covid-world/
Video
I’ve found a few videos this month that been exemplary in explaining concepts key to legal technology. Amongst these, Gordon Chung’s commercial awareness series. The entire series as well as much of Chung’s other content is well worth watching for aspiring lawyers, the fourth episode in particular deals with legal technology and law firms. All of Chung’s videos are available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkcTBkx79Pcp9nLp_WF4YVA/featured.
Although this is less law related, Sabrina Cruz attempts to programme AI to create unique pasta recipes, this is a fun and simple introduction to AI technology and machine learning principles that are explained well and applied in an understandable and realistic way. I often find that videos aiming to explain AI concepts can sometimes use examples that are difficult to grasp or feel corporeal to first time learners. Cruz did not have this issue, rather, the seemingly irrelevant pasta example is easy to imagine being placed in a legal concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_NvR5dIaOY.
Conference
This is not quite a recommendation, however, due to the ongoing pandemic, the renowned Clio Conference will be taking place entirely online this year. More information, including tickets and access to the online conference are available here: https://cliocloudconference.com/
Podcast
Law Technology Now recently posted an episode covering the impact of Coronavirus on the legal ecosystem and how this change has manifested. Rodriguez and Cohen expertly highlight and condense the topic into an easy to listen to 30 minutes that offers a fascinating insight into this key topic that I know must be a very pressing consideration for people across the legal field. This episode and others by this podcast are available at: https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/law-technology-now/
Any mistakes, innaccuracies or misrepresentations are entirely my own error for which I take sole responsibility and will rectify upon becoming aware of the situation.
Rachel Lawson – I am a 2nd year Scots Law student at the University of Dundee, the 2019 recipient of the Harold How memorial award (for most meritorious first year law student) and have an avid interest in how the legal field will develop in the coming years and technology’s impact on this.
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