#fols17
Kicking off! @HoganLovells Chief Learning Officer gets us started at Future of Law Schools! #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Panel: law schl at heart is about providing tools to bright analytical people to solve problems. #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Panel: law used to be a profession where we taught students how to advise clients & how to tell them no re regulations. #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Panel: now law schools must shift & teach students how to partner with clients to help them solve problems. #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Panel: core of law schl will be torts & con law, etc but now students must learn prof develop, leadership & other ways 2 solve probs #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Panel: most impt thing to teach law students is resilience & agility. Practice is changing quickly with technology & other develops #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: it was unseemly historically for law schls to think about the ledger/business. #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Just like law firms/lawyers need to understand their brand, law schls must understand their mission & strive to support/mkt that #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Audience: is LSAT a good gauge of who will make good future lawyers?Panel says it provides some useful info but need holistic review #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
AMEN! Panel: law schls have siloed themselves from other schls—but why, if we all train students to problem solve? #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: technology is not just changing the way we do work but providing analytics that help drive decisions/substance of legal work #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Audience: what if law schls followed the med schl model-2 yrs of classes & last yr interning, as a mentorship w/supervision? #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Will umbrella universities (of law schls) & student/consumers pay for 3rd yr of law school if just an externship? #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: law schools have a duty to serve society. If we’re seen as turning out only the future 1%, we have failed. #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
@kmwalter kicks off/moderates current panel on public-private alliance to train the 21st century lawyer #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: GCs are less-willing to pay for faceless associates-want attys who can sit around board room & contribute to financ/strategy #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
AMEN! Panel: being client-focused does not mean writing a 50-page memo w/objective analysis of all the options client could take. #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: lawyers need to understand clients don't just want a legal scholar-must always understand company's goals/objectives #FOLS17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: students need to interact w/clients earlier & give strategic analysis sooner. So law schls need to expose to finance/politics #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: in past, firm leaders thought if attys put head down & worked hard, clients will come ("Field of Dreams")-not post-recession #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: law schls-done well teaching legal skills & judgment, but could focus more on teamwork/mgmt, interpersonal relations skills #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: lawyers/law students need to need to understand how to work with data & statistics to successfully work with clients #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: we want to ensure law students have the fluid intelligence in many fields to ensure they can think broadly to help clients #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Panel: law schl challenge is tenured professors can be resistant to change or attempts to unbundle/diversify 3-yr curriculum #fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Contrary to other panelists, @williambyrnes suggests 4-yr career path/map to develop skills lawyers will need to serve clients#fols17
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM