This winter, the University of Chicago Law School will offer "Generative AI in Legal Practice," a course teaching law students how to harness generative artificial intelligence skills in an industry that is beginning to require them.

Ed Walters, chief strategy officer at legal research software company vLex, will be teaching the class after having co-taught the Georgetown Law Center course "Gen AI and Big Law" with professor Tanina Rostain, which exposed students to using gen AI to perform legal tasks and its implications.

Students taking the course will be using vLex’s Vincent AI legal research platform. In September, vLex announced upgrades to the platform, adding transactional and document drafting workflows.

Walters sat down with Legaltech News to discuss how students will be able to evaluate the output of gen AI tools, learn how to use them and adapt to emerging technology in an ever-changing industry.

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