Recommended Citation
Amy A. Emerson,
Assessing Information Literacy in the Age of Generative AI: A Call to the National Conference of Bar Examiners,
Legal Reference Services Quarterly
1-56
(2025).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/facpubs/192
Abstract
Information literacy is crucial to satisfying a lawyer’s duty of technology competence by virtue of its inherent role in conducting legal research—a skill now recognized by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) as a priority as it prepares for the NextGen Bar Exam. In light of the rapid rise in the number of attorneys facing disciplinary issues across the country, it is the NCBE’s responsibility to draw upon its rich history to address information literacy as a technological competency on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam to protect the public from newly licensed lawyers’ incompetent use of generative artificial intelligence.
ISSN
1540-949x (Online) 0270-319x (Print)
Publisher
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/0270319X.2025.2452717
Keywords
National Conference of Bar Examiners, NCBE, Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, MPRE, NextGen, bar exam, information literacy, legal research, skills, assessment, generative artificial intelligence, AI, history
Disciplines
Internet Law | Law | Legal Education | Legal Writing and Research | Science and Technology Law
Included in
Internet Law Commons, Legal Education Commons, Legal Writing and Research Commons, Science and Technology Law Commons
