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The biggest change to our training is we have two separate AI trainings for summers. It’s a very hot topic these days. Our attorneys have been starting to implement [AI] into their daily practices … attorneys are requesting more and more resources [on this] for summer associates, so we moved up the second of the trainings earlier in the summer so associates can use AI throughout the entire summer they’re here.
— Kelsey Rowan, senior manager of attorney recruiting at Blank Rome senior manager of attorney recruiting, in comments given to the Legal Intelligencer, on the new artificial intelligence training that’s been added to the firm’s summer associate programming. Other Biglaw firms, including Saul Ewing, Stradley Ronon, and Troutman Pepper Locke, have also increased generative AI training for their summer associates.
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