Gavel's Academic Program

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In the next 10 years, 90% of legal services will be delivered online. This rapid shift in the industry can leave students feeling uncertain about their role in modernizing firms and professors eager to assuage these concerns through curriculum updates to focus more on tech and innovation. ‍

With free student accounts, live guest lecture support, sample assignments, and more, Gavel is here to help whether you are a student, professor, clinic director, or otherwise involved in academia or pro bono clinic work in the legal industry.

Some helpful resources for students and professors include:

• Document Automation for Law Schools
• What is Document Automation?
• Law School Document Automation: Assignment 1
• Intro to Legal Products & Pricing
• How to Build a Legal Intake App
• Automating a Power of Attorney

Students and professors are also invited to enroll in the free Intro to Gavel (A2J Ed.) course, which gives an overview of how to use the platform and take advantage of Gavel's powerful yet easy-to-use Word Add-In and PDF tagger!

Additionally, we offer guest lectures and practical instruction to familiarize students with Gavel's robust generative AI feature "Blueprint", which can show them how AI is being used in modern law firms around the world. Blueprint analyzes templates and then suggests questions, variables, question types and more and automatically inserts the variables and questions into the templates and workflows.

Meet Gavel's Global Ambassador to Law Schools:

Brittany Hernandez facilitates Gavel's Academic Program and can be reached directly with any questions, requests for student accounts, and more at [email protected].

Brittany is a lawyer, professional no-code / low-code developer, and legal tech educator. In 2020, Brittany was a finalist in Gavel's Law for Everyone Challenge, which set her on a unique career trajectory that includes a master’s degree in International Film Business, a position as the Business Development Executive of a legal tech company based out of Scotland, and experience as a Gavel Expert/ Automation Specialist with gigLAW.

She is also the creator and host of the Lightning Talks for Legal Innovators monthly series (in partnership with Gavel) and the weekly live series, The Wednesday Build. Brittany also created the first free, interactive digital magazine built on Gavel, Code Word HEX. In early 2023, Brittany curated a bespoke curriculum for Gavel's Law Students in Legal Tech (LSILT) Access to Justice Fellowship to prepare Fellows for the incorporation of legal tech in real-world practice and to share alternative career opportunities in legal tech.