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#42: Trial by Algorithm: How AI-Powered Trial Prep Is Shaping a New Generation of Advocates
New litigators dread unscripted moments: witnesses who answer in ways they never prepared for, or objections that land in the middle of a question.
In the latest episode of Real Cases, Professor Katherine Donoghue and Carson Sadro explain how Stetson's trial advocacy program is using AI to rehearse those exact moments before students face them in a courtroom or a mock trial. Their custom GPTs play witnesses, let young attorneys rerun cross examinations, and even pepper students with objections, including wrong ones they have to recognize and rebut in four sentences. We talk about why repetition is the real engine behind courtroom skill, and why they tell students to be wrong in the simulation, before they're wrong in front of a judge.
7 May 2026
#41: AI Is Changing Law School: What Future Lawyers Need to Know
Every generation of lawyers has had to adapt to new tools. But few tools have raised harder questions about judgment, authorship, and accountability than AI.
In the latest episode of Real Cases, Professor Kirsten Davis, a nationally recognized expert in legal writing and generative AI and a recipient of the 2026 Mary S. Lawrence Innovation Award, joins us to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal education and what that means for the next generation of lawyers.
She explains how Stetson's #1-ranked legal writing program is evolving its curriculum to prepare students for an AI-assisted profession without sacrificing the foundational skills that make great lawyers. We discuss how to exercise professional judgment about AI generated text, what new graduates need to know about the technology's use in the workplace, and how the nature of legal assessment itself is changing as AI grows more capable of producing work that sounds—but doesn't always think—like a lawyer's.
27 Mar 2026
#40: Understanding Federal Financial Aid Changes in 2026
On the latest episode of Real Cases, Dean Benjamin Barros and Associate Director of Student Financial Planning Heidi Gonzales explain how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is changing the student loan landscape—and what Stetson is doing to respond. We discuss how to prepare more strategically for funding your legal education, how Stetson supports students through merit-based scholarships and financial planning guidance, and how prospective students can get in before the new caps take effect by enrolling in our new Summer cohort starting in late May '26.
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