Detailed Weekly Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction to Legal Technology (Roland Vogl)

• Historical evolution of technology in legal practice
• Current landscape of legal tech startups and established players
• Market segmentation: practice management, document automation, e-discovery, legal research
• Key challenges: adoption barriers, ethical considerations, regulatory frameworks

Week 2: Legal Data and Search (Taryn Marks)

• Evolution of legal research: from print to digital databases
• Fundamentals of search technology: Boolean searches, natural language queries
• Structure of legal databases: Westlaw, LexisNexis, Bloomberg Law
• Legal citation systems and their digital implementations
• Modern search techniques: semantic search, conceptual search

Week 3: Statistical Analysis in Law (Dan Katz)

• Quantitative methods in legal analysis and prediction
• Data collection techniques in legal domains
• Predictive analytics for case outcomes
• Limitations and challenges in legal statistics

Week 4: Natural Language Processing in Legal Applications (Harry Surden)

• Fundamentals of NLP and its legal applications
• Text classification and document clustering for legal documents
• Named entity recognition and information extraction
• Current capabilities and limitations of legal NLP

Week 5: Applied Large Language Models: Augmented Legal Workflows and AI Agents (Megan Ma)

• LLM architecture and capabilities in legal contexts
• Prompt engineering, RAG for legal applications
• Specialized legal LLMs, AI agents, and enterprise solutions
• Ethical considerations: bias, hallucination, accuracy

Week 6: Computational Logic (Mike Genesereth)

• Logic programming fundamentals for legal reasoning
• Knowledge representation in legal domains
• Computable contracts

Week 7: Designing for Legal (Margaret Hagan)

• Legal design thinking methodology
• User research techniques for legal professionals and clients
• Accessibility and inclusivity in legal technology
• Visual design principles for legal information

Week 8: Productizing Legal Technology (Jay Mandal)

• Market analysis and competitive landscape
• Business models in legal tech: SaaS, marketplace, hybrid
• Sales strategies for legal markets
• Regulatory considerations for legal technology products
• Coaching Session: One-on-one feedback on project development

Week 9: Final Presentations

• Student team presentations
• Industry expert feedback
• Discussion of future trends in legal technology
• Course wrap-up and resources for continued learning