'The New Reality': Summer Associate Training Zeros In On Generative AI

Law.com, 'The New Reality': Summer Associate Training Zeros In on Generative AI:

More Am Law 100 law firms are training their summer associates in generative AI, seeing the potential in the technology for both legal education and business.

Among the latest is Seyfarth Shaw, which launched this year a 10-week program for summers with sessions geared around learning commercial and in-house AI tools, brainstorming new AI-enabled products and processes, and debating the limits, possibilities and ethics of AI usage.

Seyfarth joins several other large firms with summer associate AI training, including Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Dechert and K&L Gates.

The push to get the newest lawyers up-to-speed comes as many, or perhaps most, firms are continuing to invest more resources, build new tools, and create new technologist and C-suite roles to leverage artificial intelligence. It also comes as new critiques of the costs and benefits of the technology are circulating. ...

Law firms told The American Lawyer earlier this year that they were frequently using it to write, draft, and research. Increasing efficiency and cutting down on non-billable tasks was also a popular use case.

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