The original title is "Ready On Day One: Clinical Education's AI Moment"

Short summary

Law schools must prepare students for AI-infused legal practice through clinical education, where they work with real clients under real consequences. As generative AI absorbs routine research and drafting, human judgment, accountability, and relationship skills become the irreplaceable core of legal practice. Clinical settings uniquely develop this by demanding students interrogate AI outputs rigorously, own their consequences, and master the professional reasoning that distinguishes lawyers from automated tools.

• •Clinical education (real client work) is ideal for teaching responsible AI integration in legal practice
• •As AI automates routine tasks, human judgment and professional accountability become the irreplaceable core differentiator
• •Students learn to interrogate, verify, and take ownership of AI outputs under real client consequences

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