What Does It Mean to Be an AI-Ready Lawyer? Farrah Pepper and Kirsten Talmage on AI Competency

What does it mean to be an AI-ready lawyer?

In this episode, Jen Leonard and Bridget McCormack are joined by Farrah Pepper, legal innovation partner at Harvey, and Kirsten Talmage, chief strategy officer at Practising Law Institute, to discuss The AI-Ready Lawyer: A Competency Framework for the AI Era.

Farrah and Kirsten explain why the legal profession needs a shared language for AI competency, how the framework can help law firms, legal departments, law schools, and individual lawyers, and why AI training should focus on durable professional skills rather than any single tool. The conversation also explores new legal career paths, the importance of oversight and judgment, and how organizations can use the framework to assess training gaps and build AI fluency responsibly.

In this episode:

• What it means to be an AI-ready lawyer
• Why the legal profession needs a shared AI competency framework
• How AI fluency differs from tool-specific training
• Why human judgment, oversight, and ethics remain central
• How firms and legal departments can use the framework
• Why smaller teams may benefit from AI training even more
• How law students can assess AI readiness in schools and employers

Learn more about PLI’s AI-Ready Lawyer framework:

[PLI AI-Ready Lawyer Framework]

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