Professor Dyane O’Leary is a national leader at the intersection of legal practice skills and legal innovation and technology. In addition to directing the Legal Innovation & Technology Center, she also directs the Law School’s LIT Concentration for JD students (akin to an undergraduate major), which was included in Bloomberg’s Top 10 innovators list and named the top legal innovation/technology program in the nation on multiple occasions by National Jurist.

Professor O’Leary is the author of the first student-centered coursebook on innovation and technology practical skills for lawyers, Legal Innovation & Technology: A Practical Skills Guide for the Modern Lawyer (West Academic Publishing, 2022). Her scholarship and speaking engagements focus on technology competence in legal practice and the law school curriculum. She has published and presented on topics such as Generative AI for lawyers, artificially intelligent legal research and writing tools, document automation, and cybersecurity basics for lawyers.

At Suffolk Law, Professor O’Leary established the first law school partnership with a legal editing software company for student access; designed and taught the first course on Generative AI; and also designed a new course called Modern Legal Practice Innovation & Tech, which covers skills in areas such as e-discovery, research analytics, remote lawyering, law practice management tools, and digital design of legal documents.

Professor O’Leary is a Fastcase 50 honoree and was recognized in 2022 in the American Bar Association’s Women of Legal Tech list. In 2023, she chaired the American Association of Law School’s Section on Technology, Law & Legal Education. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors, the AALS Technology Advisory Committee, the Access to Justice Working Group of the Thomson Reuters Institute/National Center for State Courts AI Policy Consortium, and the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Artificial Intelligence Practice Group.