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Teaching + Training

Information Management

Teaching Technology by Not Teaching Technology: Rethinking Essential Skills in Legal Tech Courses

Sunday, July 21, 2024

3:15pm – 4:15pm CDT

Room: Regency Ballroom D (West Tower Gold Level)

Coordinator(s)

Patrick Parsons (he/him/his)

Associate Director for Legal Technology & Innovation
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Slides (PDF)

Speaker(s)

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Kenton Brice

Director of Technology Innovation
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Nick Hafen

Head of Legal Technology Education
BYU Law School
Provo, Utah, United States

Moderator(s)

Michelle Hook Dewey (she/her/hers)

Legal Technologies Librarian
Georgia State University College of Law, Georgia, United States

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People, Processes, Technology. Technologists, consultants, and lawyers often point to the relationship between these three things as the bedrock of innovative practice. While legal tech education in law schools has steadily grown over the last ten years, its main focus has been on the technology itself.

But what about people and processes? Sometimes, the most essential skills for working with technology are not technical at all. Things like evaluation, change management, process improvement, design thinking, cost vs benefit analysis, and project management are all integral parts of understanding legal tech that, while not technical, are arguably more important to successfully working with technology.

In this program, the panelists will discuss how to incorporate practical and evaluative exercises into your legal tech course that, while not technical themselves, are essential to understanding why, when, and how we use and implement technology in the practice of law.

Target Audience:

Anyone teaching legal technology-related classes

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to distinguish between teaching about technology and teaching skills that lead to successful technology use and implementation
Participants will be able to strategize where they can add technology-adjacent skills into their course for a richer, more practical experience.
Participants will be able to view the use of legal technology more holistically as part of a larger structure or organization.