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Navigating the Legal Industry with the Innovative New Program at Emory Law School

published March 28, 2023

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Emory Law, a prestigious law school in Atlanta, Georgia, has launched an innovative new program that allows its law students to gain experience in legal technology. The Digital Lawyering program, overseen by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship & Innovation (ECDSI), is designed to bridge the gap between traditional legal practice and high-tech legal technology.


The Digital Lawyering program provides students with hands-on experience in legal technology, such as e-discovery, legal analytics, and artificial intelligence. The students can also learn to use legal technologies such as document automation, online dispute resolution platforms, and artificial intelligence-based legal research systems.

The program gives students the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams where they develop projects to help improve the legal profession. These projects could include creating a legal research system that uses natural language processing and machine learning to better predict legal outcomes, or using predictive coding technology to more quickly and accurately analyze and review large amounts of legal data.

The Digital Lawyering program also provides students with mentoring from industry experts, and offers workshops and seminars to help prepare them for a career in legal technology. The program also includes career services to help them connect with employers and pursue jobs in the legal technology field.

Emory Law's Digital Lawyering program is a unique initiative that is helping to bridge the gap between the legal profession and the growing legal technology field. By providing law students with hands-on experience in legal technology, the program is helping to prepare the next generation of legal professionals to better serve the legal profession and society in a digital world. For those looking to break into the legal technology field, the Digital Lawyering program at Emory Law is an innovative and valuable opportunity to gain the skills they need and explore the possibilities of legal technology.
 

Emory Law Students Take Part in New Program

Emory Law School has announced a new program that provides its students with the opportunity to work in the field of innovation and explore the many possibilities presented by the burgeoning tech startup industry. Led by professor Shirley Franklin, the program offers students the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for creating successful venture-backed startups.

This new program marks the first time a law school has sought to provide its students with specialized instruction in the sector of innovation and entrepreneurship. Through the program, law students take part in a series of seminars, workshops, and workshops, as well as engage in activities such as venture capital deals and mentoring. The program also seeks to bridge the gap between traditional legal practice and the innovative, technology-driven startup industry.

The goal of this innovative program is to create a well-rounded, multi-faceted legal professional who is knowledgeable and prepared to support the ambitious goals of tech startups. Emory Law School's program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the legal issues that arise during the formation and growth of new businesses.

In addition, it encourages its students to develop the skills needed to work in venture capital, angel investing, and other areas related to the startup industry. Through the program, students are able to gain a deep understanding of innovative and entrepreneurial business models, such as crowdfunding and other alternative forms of financing.
 

Emory Law Program Brings Innovation and Technology to Law School

Emory Law School has launched a groundbreaking innovation and entrepreneurship program, giving its students the unique opportunity to explore the opportunities in the exciting world of tech startups. Led by Professor Shirley Franklin, this program offers law students the knowledge and skills necessary for success in venture-backed startups. This is the first time a law school has sought to provide specialized instruction in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The program is designed to bridge the gap between traditional legal practice and the innovative startup industry, providing its students with a comprehensive understanding of the legal issues that arise during the formation and growth of new businesses. Students are also given the chance to gain knowledge and expertise in venture capital, angel investing, and other areas related to the startup industry. Furthermore, they learn the skills needed to work with alternative forms of financing such as crowd funding.

''One student said to me, 'If I learn nothing else, I am learning how to communicate,''' with professionals in other fields, says Margo Bagley, Associate Professor of Law for Intellectual Property and Contracts at Emory School of Law. She is the faculty member who oversees the TI:GER program.

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The TI:GER program is the brainchild of Georgia Tech professor Marie Thursby, who sought to link Ph.D. students, MBA students, and law students in a collaborative venture. Thursby contacted faculty members at Emory Law to work in developing the program, says Bagley. The first TI:GER program students were recruited in spring 2002, and the program began that next fall. The first group of six law students in TI:GER graduated in spring 2004.

TI:GER participants are divided into teams, each with two law students, one Georgia Tech MBA student, and one Georgia Tech Ph.D. science student. One of the law students has an IP focus; the other has a business law focus. The Ph.D. student has an idea for an invention as part of his or her dissertation work. The challenge: the four students on each team need to come up with a plan on how to bring this invention to market.

Team plans are purely theoretical, says Bagley. The Ph.D. student may not actually develop the idea into an invention. Plus, Georgia Tech would have ownership, even if the invention did become a reality. The teams in the TI:GER program develop plans as though the Ph.D. student were an independent scientist and the idea was really in the works.

The practical side of the TI:GER program is that projects give the participating students the chance to actually do the real work by doing patent research or developing a commercialization plan.

TI:GER starts with Ph.D. students explaining their dissertation projects to the J.D. and MBA students. The Ph.D. students continue to develop their inventions as the program progresses. The MBA student needs to figure out what the market would be for this invention, and how it could be sold.

As for the law students, the business-track law student finds the best way to move forward on the business front—whether licensing the invention to another company is the best way to go or if launching a start-up company makes more sense, for example. The IP-track law student looks at whether the invention infringes on any existing patents, how to obtain a patent, and how to determine who owns the rights to it. And the whole team has to work together.

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Having all their legal, business and science cogs clicking is not the only challenge for TI:GER program participants. Sometimes the teamwork provides a lesson in professional reality. One law student mentioned to Bagley that the science project was not as far along as he thought it would be, making it hard to search for similar or conflicting patents. Another came to Bagley saying that the other members of her team were not pulling their weights.

Bagley advised both students that these problems were examples of what could happen in their legal careers and that part of the challenge of the TI:GER program was to decide what to do in light of what others on the team are doing.

The program provides students with ''experiences that real lawyers are likely to have,'' says William J. Carney, the Charles Henry Candler Professor of Law at Emory. ''I'm very enthusiastic about the program,'' he adds. Carney, who has taught at Emory for 27 years, was involved in the program launch and selecting its first participants from the law school.

When selecting students for the program, first-year grades are key. Also, law students on the IP track need to have some technology or science background, says Carney. Law students on the business track need job experience and a demonstrated interest and ability in business law.

Faculty members are finding more and more students who say that they want to come to Emory Law because of the TI:GER program, ''and that's exciting!'' says Bagley.

Demand for places in the program is high, with only about half of applicants being accepted, says Bagley. And, even if some participants leave the program part-way through, no new students can be brought in to replace them. This is because the teams are set at the beginning of the two-year course, says Bagley, and newcomers would never be able to catch up on the collaborative work already done.

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The most important thing the TI:GER program does, says Bagley, is it lets the students learn to appreciate the needs, expectations and knowledge of the science, business and law sides of any project in which they are themselves involved. For students, the program is ''expanding their minds and their viewpoints, and that's what education should do.''

published March 28, 2023

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