01 · Exercises by course
Criminal procedure
Give students a synthetic arrest narrative; have them separate the criminal charge from the administrative license action, then run the
intake skill and critique its two-track split and deadline flag against their own analysis.
Administrative law
Use the license track: the hearing-request window, the temporary permit, and the refusal vs. test-result distinction. Students verify each step against the statute before accepting the skill's framing.
Evidence / foundation
Work the
foundation checklist against a synthetic file: which items are satisfied on this record, which are open, and why a checklist hit is not an admissibility ruling.
Legal writing
Students draft the
records/discovery demand by hand, then compare with the skill's draft: precision of the requests, the authority tied to each item, and what the skill missed or over-asked.
Professional responsibility
Supervision, confidentiality, and candor when using AI: what may be delegated to a drafting tool, what may not, and who is responsible for a hallucinated citation. The
verification protocol is the case study.
02 · Generic prompt vs. controlled skill
Run the same synthetic fact pattern through (a) an uncontrolled "analyze this DWI" prompt and (b) the corresponding TopDWI skill. Students compare: invented authority, missed deadlines, track confusion, and whether hedges survive into the final answer.
03 · Synthetic cases only
All exercises must use synthetic or fully redacted facts, clearly labeled. Never put real client, arrest, or case-identifying information into an exercise, an AI tool, or a public repository.
04 · Instructor guidance
- Have students do the analysis before running the skill; the tool is the comparison, not the answer key.
- Require every accepted proposition to be traced to a primary source; the authority file shows what that looks like.
- Treat skill output that asserts an
⛔ OPEN question, or restates a hedge as settled, as a graded catch.
05 · Suggested grading criteria
- Correct separation of the criminal and administrative tracks (and refusal vs. test-result).
- Accurate deadline identification, with the confirmation caveat preserved.
- Quality of authority verification: pin cites, currency, primary sources.
- Quality of the critique of the AI output — errors found, hedges tracked, scope limits respected.
- Professional-responsibility analysis: supervision and confidentiality handling.
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