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JurisNote Blog

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  • As Lawyers Face Sanctions for A.I. Errors, Law Schools Rethink Training

    August 4, 2026EMBy Evan Meeks

    UC Law San Francisco will require every JD student to complete an AI-enabled lawyering lab during the 2L year. Rather than contradicting recent restrictions at Chicago and Berkeley, the policy helps define an emerging consensus: law students should first build independent legal judgment, then learn

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  • The 1L Year Is Being Compressed From Both Directions

    July 29, 2026EMBy Evan Meeks

    A new LSAC/NALP report finds accelerated Big Law recruiting hurt over half of 1Ls — hitting hardest those without networks to warn them. As schools restrict AI to protect how students learn, the 1L year is squeezed from both ends: full intellectual work demanded, with less time to do it.

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  • Berkeley's AI Policy Should Worry an AI EdTech Company. Here Is Why It Doesn't

    July 22, 2026EMBy Evan Meeks

    Berkeley Law's new default rule bans AI from nearly every stage of graded work — including uses we think support learning. We disagree with some of the lines it draws, and we built for exactly this world anyway: AI features that institutions can govern, professors can override, and schools can turn

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  • A Law School Banned Laptops. Here Is Why We Agree

    July 15, 2026EMBy Evan Meeks

    The University of Chicago Law School's new AI strategy bans devices in core 1L classes — a policy an AI study platform should oppose. We don't. The problem was never that students use AI; it's that many use it too early, before the thinking skills it can shortcut have been built. That distinction is

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