As part of the William & Mary Law School community, CLCT operates and supports all of the Law School’s instructional audio/video technology. Through CLCT, first-year law students are required to electronically file pleadings through the federal court filing system as part of the Law School’s Legal Skills program. Second-year students receive hands-on courtroom technology instruction, and both Legal Skills and Trial Advocacy students use the McGlothlin Courtroom’s world-class technology during their simulated trials.
CLCT also supports specialized courses such as Electronic Discovery and Data Seizures, Technology Augmented Trial Advocacy, the Privacy in a Technological Age Seminar, and the Legal Technology Seminar.
The Law School is especially well known for its Legal Technology Seminar. Open to both second- and third-year students, the Seminar explores the benefits, risks, and other effects of legal technology for lawyers, law firms, courts and government agencies.
Supported by the CLCT staff and its wide array of technology, the Seminar includes the Laboratory Trial, a one-day experimental case tried each April. Often conducted with assistance from the Federal Judicial Center and presided over by a visiting federal judge, the Laboratory Trial involves a number of experiments conducted to determine the impact of technology on participants in the trial process as well as the administration of justice itself.