法学博士（JD）-法律创新与技术

该课程提供了一系列课程和经验，可以更好地为学生提供传统和非传统法律职业的准备。传统的雇主（例如律师事务所）越来越需要不仅具有传统法律知识和技能，而且还熟悉创新流程和技术的律师。例如，越来越多的公司希望利用云计算，采用知识管理系统，使用社交媒体进行调查和营销，从事具有成本效益的电子发现，纳入有关项目管理的见解，开发自动化文档组装程序，使用法律业务管理软件，了解有效提供法律服务的指标，并创建其律师事务所的虚拟版本。
The concentration offers an array of courses and experiences that will better prepare students for both traditional and non-traditional legal employment. Traditional employers (such as law firms) increasingly need lawyers who not only have traditional legal knowledge and skills, but who are also familiar with innovative processes and technologies. For example, an increasing number of firms want to take advantage of cloud computing, employ a knowledge management system, use social media for investigations and marketing, engage in cost-effective electronic discovery, incorporate insights about project management, develop automated document assembly procedures, use law practice management software, understand metrics for the efficient delivery of legal services, and create a virtual version of their law firms. The Innovation and Technology Concentration also will better prepare students for employment outside of traditional legal jobs, such as in the increasingly large and prosperous industry that provides law-related goods and services. For example, law graduates are taking jobs with companies that provide or are creating companies that offer legal process outsourcing, electronic discovery services, online client lead generation, automated document assembly, online law practice management, and similar services. Moreover, a growing number of traditional legal employers are now hiring lawyers to perform non-traditional jobs. For example, large firms are hiring lawyers to work in information technology, knowledge management, and project management, thus opening up yet another employment option for graduates. Students who pursue the concentration will acquire the knowledge and skills that these non-traditional professional jobs increasingly demand.