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Teaching Bank MembershipShortly after ChatGPT launched in late 2022, I was doing what most of us were doing: testing it, poking at it, trying to figure out what it could and couldn’t do. On a whim, I asked it to write a love poem for my husband. It produced something earnest, rhyming, and profoundly mediocre. I called him into the room. “I wrote you a poem,” I said, and read it aloud with as much feeling as I could muster.
Published: December 2025
Legal writing professors face a pivotal moment in legal education. The introduction of the NextGen bar exam and the rise of generative AI are fundamentally changing how we need to prepare our students for legal practice. While these two developments might seem distinct, they both demand the same core competency: the need to strengthen critical reading and evaluation skills.