Technology will lead the legal profession and the New York State Bar Association seeks to ensure that law students and young lawyers meet that challenge.

Developed by the undersigned, NYSBA designed and taught semester-long technology classes at CUNY Law School, Syracuse College of Law and Albany Law School, becoming the first bar association in the United States to ever teach an entire law course. The undersigned also taught, on behalf of NYSBA, technology-related classes at Hofstra Law School, Pace Law School and Brooklyn Law School. This is how you show practical relevance to law students.

These classes were taught by NYSBA members who are experts in such fields as biometrics, facial recognition, algorithmic bias, big data and automatic decision making, autonomous vehicles, technology and social justice advocacy, cybersecurity, drones, computer assisted review, cybercurrency, artificial intelligence and blockchain. NYSBA's recent Virtual Lawyering Book: A Practice Guide, the first book of its kind in the nation developed by a bar association, for which I am the editor, serves as the textbook for the technology class taught at Albany Law School. It is critical that students throughout New York state receive education in the fundamentals of these technologies in order to practice in our high-tech world.