Document Automation for Law Schools

In the next 10 years, 90% of legal services will be delivered online. Gavel is the infrastructure on which online legal is being built. Gavel was built by a team of lawyers and engineers who have been immersed in the legal field for the last decade. And we have some thoughts about how legal tech should be incorporated in law schools!

The series of tools below cover the span of legal tech, but we focus primarily on the following: (1) Document automation, (2) Expert systems, and (3) Legal products.

These are our areas of expertise at Gavel, and we're happy to host a session with your law school class on these topics or give them student accounts to play around in the system. Email us at [email protected].

Document Automation Training and Exercises

Hands-on building is the best way for law students to understand legal technology.  We provide educator and student accounts for law school classes for which we recommend the following structure:

1. Get inspired.

We believe the best way to learn is by envisioning the "dream state" for your tech-enabled practice. Many lawyers have successfully leveraged document automation to enhance their workflows, transform their firms, and even build full-fledged legal tech products—becoming legal tech entrepreneurs in the process.

Explore the case studies and guides below to see what's possible and gain inspiration for your own journey:

-  Gavel users have built legal apps in 23 different countries and 18 different languages. Our case guides, which we're always adding to, have convinced many a law student to become a legal tech entrepreneur.

-  Legal productization is where the legal field is headed. Read The Ultimate Guide on How to Build Legal Products, the definitive guide on building legal apps.

-  What have other students built? See videos of the finalists for our last legal app competition here.

2. Learn.

‍Students can learn the basics of using Gavel (and how document automation and expert systems work) by reviewing the instructions below. Gavel is a no-code system, which means users do not need to learn fancy syntax or coding languages to get started.

-  Start with Gavel's 101 - Crash Course here.

-  See how logic and decision trees can be used to add multiple layers of logic in this Invisible Logic course.

-  Learn better by reading manuals? Review the possibilities in our written Help Guide.

3. Do.

Practical exercises are always the best way for students to learn. We've created a set of games and hypothetical scenarios where students can put their knowledge to use directly on the Gavel platform.

Go to Law School Document Automation Exercise 1

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Gavel is used by law schools around the world. Here are just a few of the law school programs using Gavel to teach students about document automation and legal productization:

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Non-Automation Exercises for Students

Outside of automation, here are a few of our favorite games and exercises for law students to learn about legal technology.

Learned Hands Game

Learned Hands is an issue spotting game.  You will spot potential legal issues in real stories originally created from a legal questions subreddit.  Read the stories, then say whether you see a particular legal issue (family law, consumer law, criminal law, etc.).

The game also functions as a research project.  As you play, you are training a machine learning model to spot particular legal issues.  This model is planned be used to develop access to justice technologies that connect people with public legal help resources - linking the legal help guides that courts and legal aid groups offer to the people who are searching for help.

Artificial Intelligence Biases

Play this courtroom algorithm game to see how the US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased.