A new story in The National Law Review on how law school deans are responding to AI innovation in law schools.

Artificial intelligence is no longer a peripheral issue for legal education. It is quickly becoming one of the central questions facing law schools: how to prepare future lawyers for a profession in which AI will affect research, client counseling, litigation strategy, access to justice, and the business of law.

For decades, law schools treated legal technology as an elective or a niche interest for students already inclined toward innovation. That era is ending. Law firms are adopting AI tools at scale and even investing in developing their own tools. Clients are asking harder questions about efficiency, cost, and competence. Courts are sanctioning lawyers and litigants for AI-generated hallucinations, with the number of identified cases in the United States now exceeding 1,000. Students entering the profession will be expected to keep up with this rapidly changing landscape . . . .

To better understand that transformation, we asked several of the deans leading this work how their institutions are responding to AI, what opportunities they see, and what risks law schools must confront.

Shivani Vedhere et al., The Law School Deans Driving AI Innovation in Legal Education, The National Law Review, June 22, 2026.