In a recent editorial, we highlighted the emergence of artificial intelligence and its impact on the legal profession. Lawyers, law school professors and law students are exploring the ways in which AI, and specifically ChatGPT, can implicate quality of writing, journal submissions and academic and professional misconduct.

While some are focused on the negative implications, others see AI as a tool to help law students get a sense of case law without having to spend money on treatises and study guides; assist pro se litigants; help non-lawyers to understand legalese; and a method, however imperfect, to level the playing field for those who have not had access to the profession.