Continuing with my relying on Substack for many of the most interesting and up-to-date takes on the future of legal education, Dave Hoffman (Penn) writes:
I have had approximately 5,000 conversations about the essay in the last week or so, with partners, associates, faculty colleagues and students. No one feels good about what it portends. Indeed, we had Penn Law had a whole emergency edition of our regular AI-and-Legal-Education workshop series to discuss the essay and what it means for our business.
That is actually a footnote to a long Substack essay titled, “Goals Aren’t Agreements: Maybe the best contracts are the friends we made along the way,” riffing on Shumer’s viral essay “Something big is happening” [as Generative AI gets more powerful and eats into more and more workflows] and speculating about the implications of Generative AI for lawyers who negotiate and draft contracts.



