Law & Technology Society Presents: I, Lawyer: How Technological Disruption Will Change What Lawyers Do
Join the Law & Technology Society, Law Inc, and OCS as we hear from Professor John McGinnis how the rise of new technologies will change the practice of law. Will YOU be replaced by a robot? Come find out what areas of the law are most ripe for change, what jobs still need a human, and how to make sure you're valuable to your employer for years to come! Lunch will be provided.
John O. McGinnis is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He also has an MA degree from Balliol College, Oxford, in philosophy and theology. Professor McGinnis clerked on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. From 1987 to 1991, he was deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. He the author of Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Government Through Technology (Princeton 2013) and Originalism and the Good Constitution (Harvard 2013) (with M. Rappaport). He is a past winner of Paul Bator award given by the Federalist Society to an outstanding academic under 40. He has been listed by the United States on the roster of panelists who may be called upon to decide World Trade Organization Disputes.
This event is free and open to the public.