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Faculty from IU McKinney’s nationally ranked Legal Communication and Analysis (LCA) Program recently presented at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference.

Professor Brad Desnoyer’s presentation, AI vs. TA, compared how different AI platforms performed against teaching assistants when answering the same complex legal question. Professor Desnoyer found that although AI is quicker, human writers still create better and more accurate analysis.

In his presentation Straddling the Pedagogical Line, Professor Jim Dimitri discussed IU McKinney’s new part-time hybrid program for J.D. students. Professor Dimitri’s presentation explored the hybrid LCA course’s structure and pedagogy, including the course’s in-person and online components, and covered best practices in online legal education.

In her presentation Resisting Insatiability, Visiting Professor Sarah Parks discussed how the legal industry’s value of insatiability is degrading the health, sustainability, and ethics of the profession. Professor Parks discussed a method for helping students guard against this “never enough” mentality by developing their own, values-based definition of success, and using their own personalized definition in professional goal- and decision-making.

The IU McKinney LCA Program is one of the strongest and most recognized in the nation due, in part, to faculty disseminating their knowledge through scholarly presentations. This year’s conference was hosted on March 8–9 by Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, and was attended by professors from across the nation.