Join us as we explore tools and topics that will enhance your ability to leverage Generative AI technology in your daily practice. 

 

Upcoming Events and Workshops

We have AI Agent Creation hands on workshops coming in the Spring. In these workshops we will be collaborating with specific departments to create working AI agents. The program will be presented so anyone can follow along to create similar solutions for your own needs.

1. Frequently Asked Question Chatbot Workshop: March (TBD)
2. Incoming Email Routing Agent Workshop: April/May (TBD)
3. Email Attachment Processing Agent Workshop: April/May (TBD)

View our recorded events and workshops available on the Law IT Events and Workshops page. 

---

 

Resources 

AI Tools via Northwestern's agreement with Microsoft

Copilot Chat and Agent Creation ( https://m365.cloud.microsoft) 

Everyone (Faculty, Staff, and Students) have access to the free Copilot chat. Analyze public data knowing the information you are providing is not training the model and your privacy is secure.

Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Agent Creation  (https://m365.cloud.microsoft) 

The faculty and staff Copilot license incorporates the private and confidential use internal data, access to Copilot in the entire Microsoft 365 suite, as well as building agents.

In Copilot you have access to your work data in all your Microsoft Apps and Cloud services maintaining our institutions privacy and confidentiality in both the cloud version or your Office 365 apps including Teams meeting transcription. You can do information queries for your next project meeting, or build an agent to automate a repetitive process. In the cloud version, you also have access to two specific agents: 1)  Researcher – for gathering, summarizing, and synthesizing information, and  2)  Analyst – for analyzing data, identifying trends, and generating insights. 

 

Lists of Public AI Tools

• OpenAI's ChatGPT ( https://chatgpt.com/)
• Anthropic's Claude ( https://claude.ai/) 
• Futuretools ( https://www.futuretools.io)
• Futurepedia ( https://www.futurepedia.io)
• Github Awesome Generative AI ( https://github.com/steven2358/awesome-generative-ai

Ideas for prompts

• Prompt Engineering Guide ( https://www.promptingguide.ai/)
• GenAI Academic Prompt Bank ( https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/academic-skills-online/genai-academic-prompt-bank)

Ethics for AI

• Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics

Generative AI and Student Assessment *

* This section provided by John McGinnis – "Student Assessments in the Era of Generative AI" 

1. AALS, Creating Law School Assessments with Generative AI
2. Columbia Teachers College, Thinking about Assessment in the Time of Generative Artificial Intelligence
3. Mark Shope, Best Practices for Disclosure and Citation when using Artificial Intelligence Tools Generative AI in Legal Research, Education, and Practice
4. Leon Furze, et al., The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in action: A pilot implementation of GenAI supported assessment
5. John Bliss, Teaching Law in the Age of Generative AI
6. Michael D. Murray, Prompt Engineering and Priming in Law
7. Carolyn Williams, Bracing for Impact: Revising Legal Writing Assessments Ahead of the Collision of Generative AI and the NextGen Bar Exam

 

---