I’m only going to hire a lawyer to provide the things I can’t get from a machine - the human aspects. And when I need that kind of service, I’ll want a lawyer who has thought consciously about how to incorporate humanity into law practice, and who is skilled at doing so.

Llewellyn’s dissatisfaction with legal education in 1935 is palpable in this talk. What strikes me is how many of his indictments of and challenges to legal education I still find valid today.

We don’t know what the future will look like, but we know for sure is that AI will radically change information processing, and therefore lawyering. What will the role of the lawyer be when my students are my age? There’s no way to know - but there is a way to prepare.