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50 U. Tol. L. Rev. 477 (2018-2019)
A Call to Arms: Why and How Lawyers and Law Schools Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

handle is hein.journals/utol50 and id is 503 raw text is: A CALL TO ARMS: WHY AND HOW LAWYERS AND LAW SCHOOLS SHOULD EMBRACE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Melanie Reid* INTRODUCTION T HE legal profession has been described as old, stuffy, traditional, structured, and slow to change. Most law offices cling to the status quo and have been slow to rid themselves of their old, musty case books and dark mahogany wood paneling. Many lawyers are hesitant to deviate from old ways of practicing law that have previously served them well and to embrace emerging but untested technologies that might make their job easier in the long term. In their eyes, in the short term, such technology appears to be too expensive and the learning curve too steep. A perfect example of how the legal profession is slow to embrace change is to start at the very beginning of one's entry into the law and examine the law school application process. While the Educational Testing Service has been administering the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) digitally for at least a decade, the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) is only now considering offering the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) digitally.' Coincidentally, the LSAC is moving in that direction and offered a digital LSAT pilot test this year at the same time 23 law schools, including Harvard Law School, have agreed to accept students' GRE scores rather than LSAT scores.2 Law schools are simply forcing the LSAC to change from a pencil-and-paper test to an electronic test where results can be received in a matter of hours rather than weeks. With that in mind, we must similarly ask ourselves, what will it take for lawyers, administrators, and faculty in legal education to evolve and embrace the changes and technological advancements taking place in other professions and businesses? Such technological advancements need to be brought into the law office and into the classroom and be examined, utilized, questioned, and improved * Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, Lincoln Memorial University-Duncan School of Law. I would like to thank Miranda DeRicco for her invaluable research assistance. Additional thanks goes to the University of.Toledo Law Review, especially Grace Borell, Bri Rafferty, and Matt Ritzman, and my fellow presenters on the Symposium's Artificial Intelligence panel. 1. See EDUC. TESTING SERv., https://www.ets.org/gre (last visited Feb. 12, 2019); Will the LSAT Ever Be a Computer-Based Test?, PRINCETON REv., https://stg-www.princetonreview.com/1aw- school-advice/1sat-digital-pilot (last visited Feb. 12, 2019). 2. Which Law Schools Accept GRE Scores?, PRINCETON REv., https://www.princetonreview .com/law-school-advice/gre-scores-law-school-admissions (last visited Feb. 12, 2019). 477

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