Date: Friday, February 13, 12:30 – 2:00 PM ET/11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CT/10:30 AM – 12:00 PM MT/9:30 – 11:00 AM PT
Section on Clinical Legal Education
This session will explore concrete, practice-oriented ways transactional law clinic faculty can incorporate artificial intelligence into both teaching and client work. We will review key AI tools, their pros and cons, and real-world use cases that advance pedagogical goals (e.g., creating interview simulations, drafting case studies, designing exercises) and lawyering efficiencies (e.g., synthesizing readings, drafting summaries, preparing community presentations). We will also touch on ethics and professionalism concerns, emerging trends, and helpful resources for continued learning. The session will feature several short presentations from clinicians who are currently using AI in their clinics, followed by an open discussion where audience members can share how they are experimenting with and implementing AI tools in their own programs.
Jorge Conteras, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Jorge L. Contreras is a Distinguished University Professor, the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law. He teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property, property law, technical standardization, antitrust and science policy. In 2020 he received the University of Utah’s Distinguished Research Award and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Subcommittees on Intellectual Property, and was awarded the Rossman Memorial Award by the Patent & Trademark Office Society in 2022.
Professor Contreras has written or edited fourteen books and published more than 150 scholarly articles and chapters. His book, The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (NY: Hachette/Algonquin, 2021), has been praised by the NY Times, Wall St. Journal, Nature and numerous other outlets, and was named “Best Patent Law Book of the Year” by the international IPKat blog. His scholarly articles have appeared in leading scientific, legal and policy journals including Science, Nature, NYU Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Iowa Law Review and Antitrust Law Journal. He has been quoted by media outlets around the world including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Korea Times and has been featured on C-SPAN, NPR, PRI and BBC shows and a range of podcasts and online news programs.
Professor Contreras currently serves Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Division of the ABA’s Section of Science & Technology Law and a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute. He has previously served as Co-Chair of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Council of Councils, the Advisory Council of NIH’s National Center for the Advancement of Translational Sciences (NCATS), the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, and the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). In 2021 he served as Chair of the Art Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and currently serves as Chair of the AALS Remedies Section.
Professor Contreras has previously taught at American University Washington College of Law and Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to entering academia he was a partner at the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he practiced transactional and intellectual property law in Boston, London and Washington DC. He is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BA, BSEE) and clerked for Chief Justice Thomas R. Philips of the Texas Supreme Court.
Katherine Hughes, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, Fordham University School of Law
Katherine Hughes ’08, is a clinical professor and director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, is a leader in nonprofit, small business, and social enterprise law and practice in New York City. Prior to joining Fordham, she served as pro bono counsel and global director of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s pro bono program.
An accomplished transactional attorney with many years of experience working with and supervising junior attorneys, she has served as the co-chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Non-Profit Organizations Committee and as a program committee member of the New York University Grunin Center’s annual conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing.
For her pro bono work on behalf of nonprofits and social enterprises, she has been recognized by Lawyers Alliance for New York and named a Trailblazer by The New York Law Journal. Hughes brings considerable teaching experience, including co-teaching seminars and supervising students in Fordham’s Community Economic Development Clinic and legal writing program for many years. Hughes also clerked for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
She is a graduate of Fordham Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Fordham Law Review and received the Joseph R. Crowley Award for public service and academic achievement, the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award for public service contributions, and the Fordham Law School prize for the student with the highest GPA in their first-year section. Hughes also earned an M.A. in international political economy and development at Fordham and an M.Sc. in race and ethnic relations from the University of London. She received her B.F.A. from Emerson College.
Darrell Mottley, Assistant Clinical Professor, Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic, Suffolk University Law School
Darrell G. Mottley is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic (IPEC). The IPEC represents entrepreneurs and start-up companies on business law matters, such as formation, contract law, and Intellectual Property strategy. The IPEC students represent clients on an extensive range of intellectual property issues, including patent (utility and design), trademark, copyright, and trade secret law. Professor Mottley’s scholarship explores the intersection of Intellectual Property law between design patents, trade dress, copyright, and utility patent law, including Web 3.0 virtual and cryptographic environments.
Prior to joining Suffolk’s faculty, Professor Mottley served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law, where he founded and directed the IP and Patent Law Clinic and taught a new AI and the Law seminar. Professor Mottley was also a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School for over a decade where he co-taught Design Law.
As a registered Patent Attorney and former shareholder of the BannerWitcoff law firm, Professor Mottley has advised on intellectual property aspects of multiple technologies, including obtaining Artificial Intelligence technology focused patents for clients. Professor Mottley has been rated a SuperLawyer by Thomson Reuters from 2020-2024. He has been rated as an IP Star in the United States, and in the District of Columbia by Managing Intellectual Property from 2013-2024. Professor Mottley is listed in the IAM Patent 1000-World’s Leading Patent Professionals from 2017-2024.
Professor Mottley has been a volunteer leader in the organized bar. He has served as the National Chair of the Fellows of American Bar Foundation in 2022-2023 and President of the District of Columbia Bar in 2011-2012. During his term as President, he emphasized lawyers should do more for access to justice and pro bono service for those in need of civil legal services. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Professor Mottley was an engineer in private practice, in the federal government and a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Professor Mottley holds a B.S. in Engineering Science & Mechanics and an M.B.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a J.D. degree with honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he served as a Notes Editor of the Public Contract Law Journal student editorial board
Cynthia Dahl, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Robert MacKenzie, New York University School of Law
