Alice Armitage

Professor & Director of Applied Innovation, LexLab at UC Hastings Law

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

I could create a course for law students around this idea. They would learn both the tech and the requirements of citation while automating the Blue Book for the rest of us.
Fun Fact (?): The year I was E-I-C of the YLJ, it was our turn to update the BB. Talk about tedious!

[LexLab @LexLabSF]

Thank you to the wonderful guest speakers who added so much to our semester of Generative AI and the Business of Law!

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

Proactivity in embracing generative AI provides the legal profession with a unique opportunity to forge a path to reforms that will allow us to be relevant and respected in the future.

[Daniel W. Linna Jr. @DanLinna]

The general statements below could have been written specifically for law.

We’ve barely begun to grapple with the impact AI will have on law, legal institutions, and legal services. More importantly, we need to chart a course proactively for how AI can be used to transform law, legal institutions, and legal services to improve the rule of law and access to justice for everyone.

[Daniel W. Linna Jr. @DanLinna]

Twenty years ago legal education determined that students must first learn to use books and pocket parts before they could use computers for research. That lasted for only a couple of years before everything started with computers. Regarding AI, the best question is, how can we use AI to accelerate the best of the learning students experience in law school? We’ve barely scratched the surface of that question. If we go down the path of banning AI, we will miss and delay important opportunities for our students, our research, and the law itself.

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

I tested this tool and it would be very helpful in addressing the A2J crisis if it is freely available! Maybe taking it to legal aid orgs and law school clinics would be a good place to start bringing awareness of it to those in need of help.

[Andrew Perlman @Andrew_Perlman]

Here's a custom version of ChatGPT offering basic legal information and referrals to available resources: https://t.co/uPQCDuKbVx….Assuming tools like this could be made freely available, how helpful would they be in addressing the A2J crisis?

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

@Andrew_Perlman This tool is awesome. I asked questions about eviction and debt collection (the focus of two A2J classes I have taught) and the responses were terrific, localized and very clearly written.

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

I agree with this insightful essay. A change to traditional law firm structure is just a matter of time now that GAI is readily available for legal research, document drafting, and other legal tasks.

https://t.co/artarnyxWD

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

@inspiredcat @marclauritsen count me in! I have many ideas on what to teach to produce graduates who not only know how to practice law, but also to collaborate with others (especially those who are not lawyers), and to think in ways that combine critical thinking skills with other problem-solving methods.

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

Join tomorrow for this exciting event about GAI:

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[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

Students in my class gained many insights from this session with our Founders. A wonderful start to this Fall semester!

[LexLab @LexLabSF]

We are incredibly excited about our newest cohort of Justice Tech startups! Students learned about their origin stories and ideas in our “Meet The Cohort” session this week.

[LexLab @LexLabSF]

This week, LexLab Welcomes Eight Startups to its Inaugural Justice Technology Accelerator Program! Clearbox, Cover | Counsel, Freedom, Layman, Ltd., Level, Litigation Friend, Namesake Collaborative, & Societal Systems.

Read more: https://t.co/LrA4jpkrFJ

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

Bloomberg @business recognized @uclaw_sf with an innovation award for my Concentration in Technology and Innovation that launched in 2022.

[LexLab @LexLabSF]

Bloomberg has shined a spotlight on the tech & innovation concentration at @uclaw_sf! Check out more below.

https://t.co/HjjuXweKdj

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

Lawyers are 50th highest on the study's list of occupations that may be impacted by LLMs; Law Teachers are 5th 😱

[LexLab @LexLabSF]

Calling all justice tech startups! Applications for our Justice Tech Accelerator at LexLab are still open and will run through July 31st. Gain mentorship, funding, and visibility to make a positive impact on the justice system! #JusticeTech #LegalTech https://t.co/Hu3wQg4bp3

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

"It is interesting that most of the commentary on the impact of AI on the law has focused on what this means for lawyers and judges.... Lawyers and the media would do well to ask more often what generative AI mean for access to justice and for the client community generally."

[Richard Susskind @richardsusskind]

Here are six thoughts on the current and future use of AI in the law - https://t.co/dIsdGpJJnk via @LinkedIn

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

Generative AI holds the potential to substantially reduce our Access to Justice problem- but only if lawyers let it happen.

[Jeff Carr @CarrNext]

Years ago I started using a 4 box to describe all #LawLand does w/ bottom activity based boxes fostering culture charging for activity/inputs rather than results/outputs. I argued then & maintain now, the top right box holds highest customer value & lowest activity, while content would become free or near free. LLM/GAI will enable that transition.

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

@inspiredcat Law is a business, but one which has protected itself from competition and the additional economic pressures that other businesses must confront. As a result, law continues to operate as a guild or, in modern terms, a self-regulated monopoly.

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

@SameenaSafdar @heyitsalexsu @DebordKatie @inspiredcat @NatalieRoisman @GTeninbaum @SameenaSafdar Join me at @TheAALS webinar 6/21. We're going to dig deep into just the question you asked in a panel discussion between me, Jake Heller, (@casetext) David Wang (@wilsonsonsini ) & John Bliss (@SturmCOL). https://t.co/ptwhVoNaK2

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

The impact from the speed at which AI is developing is hard to know, but the legal profession can’t afford to ignore it any longer.

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

The last few days in AI development is insane.

Google X Adobe
ChatGPT new UI
Midjourney 3d model
ChatGPT Plugins release
Coca-Cola new Ad with AI
Google new Universal Translator AI
Claude gets better than ChatGPT-4

Everything you need to know & how it'll change many things:🧵

[Alice Armitage @TheProfArmitage]

As I teach my students: “The survey highlighted clients’ wish for their lawyers to be ‘business savvy’. “This shows that whilst legal expertise is the top driver, it is not sufficient on its own. It’s the other aspects of the relationship that will enable true differentiation.”