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A Litigator's Guide to AI. Attention Is All You Need?

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A Litigator's Guide to AI. Attention Is All You Need? (1102): Taught from a litigator's perspective, this course examines using LLMs in everyday practice. The course will teach how attention, the skill that defines great advocacy, bridges legal practice and the transformer architecture powering LLMs. Lawyers already structure arguments, visuals, and case narratives to direct attention; large language models allocate it through a structurally parallel process. A model's context window demands the same discipline as a jury's attention span: structure, selection, and sequence matter. From that foundation, students develop a practitioner's understanding of transformers, tool use, reasoning, and agentic systems, and apply them to case development, context assembly, strategic analysis, and advocacy. Students then design and build their own AI-powered workflows for case development and analysis. The course shows why the litigator's craft is already the foundation of AI-augmented practice, and gives students the tools to prove it. What remains irreducibly human: judgment, strategy, and framing. No coding required. Elements used in grading: Paper.

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A Litigator's Guide to AI. Attention Is All You Need? | LAW 1102 Section 01 Class #32077

  • 1 Units
  • Grading: Law Honors/Pass/Restrd Cr/Fail
    • Course Type: New Course
    • Course Type: Short Course
  • Learning Outcomes Addressed:
    • LO1 - Substantive and Procedural Law
    • LO2 - Legal Analysis and Reasoning
    • LO4 - Ability to Communicate Effectively in Writing
    • LO6 - Law Governing Lawyers/Ethical Responsibilities
    • LO7 - Professional Skills
  • Course Category:
    • Business Law
    • Intellectual Property & Technology

Notes: Short Course. New Course.

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