#legal-training

#legal-training

Developed over 12 months of research with general counsel, business development leaders and law firm executives, The Law Firm Growth Game places associates, partners and business services professionals into the role of running a law firm over the course of one financial year. Working in competing teams, participants are faced with real-world scenarios that law firms encounter every day, Koenen-Geerdink said in an interview.

Legal training has long followed a guild system: law schools teach doctrine, then new lawyers learn to practice by working alongside experienced attorneys. This apprenticeship model may have worked well decades ago, but it's increasingly problematic today. And it particularly doesn't work well when it comes to GenAI since all too often younger lawyers know more about the tools than more experienced lawyers.

Mollick notes in his book that AI tools have the capacity to create enhanced expertise on anything and everything by everyone and anyone. This dynamic is already playing out in legal practice. Want to be an expert on non disclosure agreements? You can do several AI prompts and get much of what you need to know to get by, at least for more routine questions.

Much of the mundane work young lawyers were expected to do didn't train them to do much of anything other than maximize billable hours, and it was depressing.