The goal of the session is to provide the audience with ideas and best practices for moving parts of a clinical program to an asynchronous format. Like most transactional law clinics, the Entrepreneurs Law Clinic (ELC) at Santa Clara Law had to move to an online format due to the COVID pandemic, but then was back in person as soon as possible. However, the clinic professors realized that some of what they had learned from the online experience might be leveraged in a post-pandemic, hybrid world, not only to increase flexibility for both students and clinicians, but also to enhance the learning experience. In the summer of 2024, the ELC conducted an experiment, moving the summer clinic to an hybrid experience that included asynchronous materials as well as live online zoom sessions. In the fall of 2024 we continued the experience, except that the live sessions were in person. In the spring of 2025, we have revisited the assignments and structure, making some changes. And we have new plans - in the fall of 2025, we will move one section of the ELC to the FLEX format, which is Santa Clara’s new part-time program that involves residence weeks/weekends in addition to asynchronous modules. The presenters will share tips, tricks, and tools used in creating this hybrid version of the clinic and our thoughts about how are/plan to continue to refine the experience and prepare for the FLEX format. Handout materials will include a framework for hybrid clinic program development, including assignment samples and a sample syllabus.  

Generative AI (GAI) is fast becoming a significant tool for legal service providers. While the use of GAI in practice is increasing by the month, law schools have been cautious about adding this technology into our curriculum. Unlike other skills we teach, most clinicians do not have independent experience with using GAI for legal work, and are not yet comfortable relying on in the classroom. Caution is understandable; GAI raises ethical concerns, as well as questions around impacts of students learning of other baseline skills. And the technology is changing and evolving at a seemingly dizzying pace. Yet, as clinicians we want to prepare our students for the tools, dilemmas, and thinking they will need for practice; and as legal service providers quickly ramp up their use of GAI, this is a tool we need to introduce to our students. The presenters are two self-defined non-experts in this area who have been experimenting with incorporating GAI into our curriculums. We will offer the framing we provide around the ethical issues inherent with using (and possibly not using) GAI and provide several ways in which we have used GAI in classes and in our client representation. Our goal is that participants leave with: •materials that can be used for framing the use of AI, including ethical issues it raises; •sample language we have used in client retainers/engagement letters; and •lesson plans or exercises where we have used AI with students, in areas of interviewing, contract drafting, editing written work, and brainstorming options/solutions for clients.

In this episode, we'll focus on five critical clauses in our products to purchase or sell products with GenAI features. We'll review the core legal and business issues, discuss how to evaluate risk management strategy, and explore strategies for negotiation.

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