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Thank you Dean Andrew Perlman, Professor Gabriel Teninbaum, Julia Rodgers, Esq., Brian Liu for the amazing panel and discussion today. There were many invaluable takeaways about the future of law in the face of new technologies, but the one that keeps coming back to me was Dean Andrew Perlman's reminder that, 25 years ago, lawyers were cautioned against using email due to data privacy concerns. Today, we can’t even register as lawyers without one!
You know who else is here at Startup Boston Week? Our friends at Suffolk University Law School, that’s who. Moderated by Professor Gabriel Teninbaum, a panel with Dean Andrew Perlman, alumna Julia Rodgers, Esq., JD ’15, and Bryan Liu, co-founder of LegalZoom, discussed the importance—and inevitability—of technology in the delivery of legal services. Indeed, Dean Perlman has made tech and AI a cornerstone of a Suffolk Law education. He held up Rodgers as a perfect example of this trend: she studied legal technology as a Suffolk Law student, then worked in family law, and soon realized that a lot of what she was doing at her firm could be automated. That’s how HelloPrenup was created (and went on to do very well on “Shark Tank”). While the legal profession has often been leery of technology—“there are lots of guardians,” said Liu—Rodgers said the lawyers who work on HelloPrenup really like the fact that the technology makes their jobs easier, allowing them to edit right on the platform, store oft-used legal phrases in a “clause library,” and to spend more time with clients. Perlman wants law students to understand the benefits of generative AI, which will increasingly be a part of the profession. “We want to help prepare Suffolk Law and our students for a rapidly changing world.”