, the report examines anticipated changes in teaching, AI competency in J.D. education, assessment practices, use of general and specialized applications, and demand for training.
Selected findings
Nearly 40% (39.70%) expect AI to substantially change teaching in many courses or transform most of the curriculum over the next five years; another 33.82% foresee moderate change in selected courses.
By the 2030–31 academic year, 41.18% expect AI competency to become a graduation requirement or a required course or component at most law schools. Another 22.06% expect informal integration into courses.
To address student AI use, 57.35% expect more supervised, in-person assessments, 52.94% expect students to document their AI use, and 44.12% foresee assignments that require AI use. Respondents could select multiple approaches.
General-purpose AI use is highly uneven. In the past 30 days, mean reported work use was 361.84 minutes for Claude and 255.13 minutes for ChatGPT, but the medians were zero and 15 minutes, respectively.
Every specialized legal AI application tested had a median of zero minutes of use in the past month. Protege led on mean use at 23.18 minutes, followed by CoCounsel Legal at 17.73 minutes and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant at 16.36 minutes.
The report offers benchmarks for deans, faculty, law librarians, and legal technology providers planning curriculum, assessment, licensing, and training.