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Let us be Creators not just Consumers!

If we’re to be Useful as lawyers we’re going to need to be better than consumers of AI tools

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Richard Nicholas
Sep 03, 2026
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In the 1990s I got a GCSE in “Business and Information Studies” (not a humblebrag - the course was genuinely awful)

I’d thought I’d be learning how to code. Instead, from memory we learned how to use tools like powerpoint, excel and similar tools to make spreadsheets, graphs and presentations. We were learning how to be “consumers” of technology, rather …

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