Episode 205: Legal GenAI Conversations Series – The Lawyer Mindset

02/24/25 • 57 min

This podcast was recorded on 20 February 2025, as the inaugural session in CLI’s Legal GenAI Conversations Series. In this session, Terri Mottershead, Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation discussed The Lawyer Mindset with global superstar former lawyer, psychologist and legal industry consultant Dr. Larry Richard, Founder and Principal Consultant at LawyerBrain LLC.

Topics covered in this session included:

Defining and understanding how the lawyer mindset is different
How the lawyer mindset is impacted by, and impacts, continuous change
How lawyers can best manage and cope with the GenAI enabled pace and breadth of change

You’ll find details about the other topics we’ll be discussing in this series here.

If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free Resource Hub here.

Don’t forget to join CLI’s free Legal Generative AI Community here – it’s a lightly curated daily news feed on all things legal GenAI.

Topics covered in this session included:

Defining and understanding how the lawyer mindset is different
How the lawyer mindset is impacted by, and impacts, continuous change
How lawyers can best manage and cope with the GenAI enabled pace and breadth of change

You’ll find details about the other topics we’ll be discussing in this series here.

If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free Resource Hub here.

Don’t forget to join CLI’s free Legal Generative AI Community here – it’s a lightly curated daily news feed on all things legal GenAI.

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Episode 204: Welcome to Lex ExploreAI Series – What you can expect!

This podcast was recorded on 5 February 2025, as the inaugural session in CLI’s Lex ExploreAI Series.

In this session host Courtney Blackman, Head of Partnerships and Program Director of the LawTech Hub & AI Clinical Placements at Lander & Rogers joined Terri Mottershead, Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation to discuss:

The state of legal AI
The work being done in AI at Lander & Rogers
What you can expect from this series in 2025

You’ll find details about the other sessions in this series here.

If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this episode, you’ll find the video in our CLI-Collaborate (CLIC) free Resource Hub here.

Want to keep the legal AI fires burning? Please join CLI’s Legal Generative AI Global Community here for a free, lightly curated daily news feed on all things legal GenAI.

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Episode 206: Future 50 Series – The Law Profs GenAI Sandbox – Empowering legal educators in the age of AI

Generative AI has created a critical role for educators. Everyone is learning something new, and educators know how to make that meaningful and stick. Whether the tech is forcing us to challenge traditional mindsets, understand a new context for our work, experiment with new ways to work, or embrace different ways to collaborate with different people so we find the right solutions to new issues, educators have a pivotal role to play.

In this session, we chatted with three professors in the US who took their individual experiences with generative AI, and their learnings in their respective disciplines, to create a resource and community for legal educators to learn, share, and do more with this tech – they called it The Law Profs GenAI Sandbox.

Our discussion with the fabulous founders of the Sandbox: Will Monroe, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology, LSU Law Library, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center; Tracy Norton, Assistant Professor of Law, Erick Vincent Anderson Professor, LSU Law Center; and Susan Tanner, Assistant Professor of Law, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, was enlightening and inspiring.

We kicked off with where generative AI is taking higher education; delved into how the Sandbox started and where it might go next; and concluded with benchmarking where and how educators can embrace the tech. But, what was also evident throughout the entire discussion was the joy, excitement, and passion these profs have for finding ways to use the tech so it enhances learning for students and supports their colleagues in using it effectively and efficiently too.

If you are working in education and particularly legal education, you will not want to miss this one!

If you would prefer to watch rather than listen to this podcast, you’ll find the video here.

About the Future 50 Series

In the Future 50 Series we’re chatting with legalpreneurs who, through their ideas and actions, are challenging and transforming legal BAU all around the world.

If you would like to recommend people for this Series, please contact us at: [email protected]