While the Actionstep team can’t claim four decades of attendance, we did pay attention to what ‘moved the needle’ this year and how it impacts our legal community. Here are our top five prevalent themes:
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I am back in the classroom this semester. As I put together my syllabus, I faced the artificial intelligence section. It is, for me, relatively inconsequential even though I am teaching a research and writing class. I point students towards Grammarly, which the university (not the law school) has a site
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