Study

Modern lawyers are asked to make sense of increasingly large messes. Discovery requests may yield millions of pages instead of thousands. Government and corporate decisions may rely on black-box algorithms that can only be inferred from their data exhaust. Evidence to support changes in law or policy may lie hidden in newly digitized public records. Clients with complex, urgent, inchoate stories need to be triaged and processed. This course aims to equip law students with the foundational technical skills to make sense of any mess. Via real-world problems rooted in legal practice, students will learn the basics of collecting, searching, and analyzing data, along with how to build simple scripts and automations. Although students will encounter, generate, and write code, this is not a course in computer science or an introduction to programming.

Special Notes:

*New*

Fall 2025

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
728.01	2	Practical exercises Class participation	Keith Porcaro