Jennifer L. Wondracek

Jennifer L. Wondracek is the Associate Dean of Legal Information, Director of the Underwood Law Library, and a Clinical Professor of Legal Research at SMU Dedman School of Law. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Political Science from the College of Charleston, a J.D. from the University of North Carolina, and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is licensed to practice law in Florida and North Carolina.

After practicing law as a staff attorney for North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services in Raleigh, Professor Wondracek began her career as a law librarian at Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in 2006. She served as Reference and Government Documents Librarian at Elon University School of Law from 2008 to 2010, then joined the University of Florida's Legal Information Center, where she held several positions, most recently Head of E-Services and Technology. At UNT Dallas College of Law, she founded and led the Legal Educational Technology department as its director, drafted the first practice-related technology competency requirement for J.D. candidates in the United States, and began her work on virtual reality and 360-degree photography in legal practice. From 2020 to 2026, she served as Director of the Law Library and Professor of Legal Research and Writing at Capital University Law School.

Professor Wondracek has taught legal research at every institution she has served, including serving as professor of record at Elon, Florida, UNT Dallas, and Capital, along with courses in advanced legal research, legal writing, and legal drafting. She built the first Law Practice Technology course at UNT Dallas and again at Capital, and she developed and taught Capital's AI and the Law course. At SMU, she looks forward to teaching legal research and technology-oriented courses.

Her research addresses the ethical and responsible use of generative AI in the legal profession, the use of AI in scoring the NextGen Bar Exam, and attorney technology competence. She helped found the Legal AI Hallucination in the U.S. Courts Tracker, a database documenting cases in which generative AI has misled courts through fabricated citations, hallucinated quotations, and other misuse. She is also a founding blogger of the AI Law Librarians blog.

Professor Wondracek's scholarship appears in the University of St. Thomas Law Journal, the ABA's The Brief and Law Practice Management, AALL Spectrum, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Columbus Bar Lawyers Quarterly, and the Florida Bar Journal. She wrote the entry on attorneys' ethical obligations in using AI for the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law (2025) and has contributed chapters to edited collections on law librarianship and academic libraries.

She has served on the board of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) since 2022 and speaks frequently on legal technology and generative AI at conferences and CLE programs sponsored by the ABA, AALS, AALL, the Dallas Bar Association, and the Columbus Bar Association. Professor Wondracek received the AALS Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award in 2025 and the Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award from AALL's Legal Innovation & Technology Special Interest Section in 2024. In 2021, she was named to the Fastcase 50 and honored as an ABA Legal Technology Resource Center Woman of Legal Tech.