legal education in an age of - wordpress.com · 2016-12-08 · leading the future: the human...
TRANSCRIPT
Legal Education in an Age of
Join the conversation @CowenCentre #SZCC
1
Equipping law students to meet new challenges
Disruption
‘Disruptive innovation describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors.’ Clayton Christensen Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/
Since 2013…
• Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence / Virtual legal assistants • Contract Analysis Software • Data Analytics and Prediction • Blockchain
• 3D Printing • Internet of Things • Smart Cities • Connected Automated vehicles • Genomics • and... and… and …
Contract analysis software • What is it? • What does it do? • Impact on parties? • Impact on lawyers? • Impact on legal graduates?
Georgina Landon LLBLP Honours thesis: ‘The anticipated impact of contract analysis software on the contractual lifecycle for parties and legal professionals’
2016 2026 2036 ?
What does legal education need to look like
to equip our graduates
for careers in 5 years and beyond?
NOW
TLO 1: Knowledge
TLO 2: Ethics and Professional Responsibility
TLO 3: Thinking Skills
TLO 4: Research Skills
TLO 5: Communication and Collaboration
TLO 6: Self-management
Threshold Learning Outcomes for Law
Sally Kift, Mark Israel, Rachael Field
Maintaining Competence [8] To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject.
Sarah McCormick Kain Lawyers 2016 Innovation intern
Legal Analyst
California and Oregon State Bar task forces also calling for limited license legal technician pilots
2016 2026 2036 ?
What could legal education look like
to equip our graduates
for careers in 5 years and beyond?
NOW
Daniel Susskind, The Australian Financial Review Thursday 19 May 2016 p.52
‘The most conservative people we talk to about the book are young professionals. They are people who have just spent five, seven or 10 years training to be a particular type of professional and spent a fortune doing so. And then they hear us say, “many of the things you have trained for are just not going to be important to being a 21st century professional”, and they are furious.’
‘Very few lawyers presently in law firms have the right traits and skills for the future. There are too many specialists, too many black-letter lawyers and too many legal technicians. Few of these will be needed in the firm of the future. What will be needed will be men and women who understand the art of listening, questioning and giving advice in a way that gives clients a sense of safety. These people will understand business and, more importantly, the psychology of running and operating a business. They will be more like advisory partners in the Big 4.’
Dr Bob Murray and Dr Alicia Fortinberry Leading the Future: The Human Science of Law Firm Strategy and Leadership p 6
Michele R. Pistone & Michael B. Horn Disrupting Law School: How disruptive Innovation will revolutionize the legal world p.3
‘The time is ripe for legal educators to understand the underlying forces that are impacting law schools and the larger market for legal services and to reimagine these forces not as threats, but as opportunities to renew the promise and energy of the legal sector with a vigor not seen in years. If existing schools and legal educators do not heed the lessons from disruptive innovations and seize this opportunity, then others will.’
Tania Leiman [email protected] Georgina Landon Sarah McCormick
We’d love to continue the discussion with you…
The 2016 White Paper Disrupting Law School identifies five factors disrupting legal education: disruption in legal services, nonconsumption of legal services, policy/licensure changes, disruption in higher education, and nonconsumption of legal education. Recent innovations in the legal services sector include automated document production and review, e-discovery, predictive analysis, artificial intelligence and legal chatbots. These are taking place in a broader context of societal change – use of robotics in manufacturing; fully automated, driverless vehicles predicted to be widely in use by 2030; and blockchain technology enabling secure real time tracking of financial and other transactions. What does this mean for the future of legal education? What knowledge, skills and competencies will law graduates need to meet this new and dynamically changing environment? How can law students be effectively equipped with that capacity? Michele R Pistone and Michael B Horn, ‘Disrupting Law School: How disruptive innovation will revolutionise the legal world’, Clayton Christensen Institute (March 2016)
Join the conversation @CowenCentre #SZCC
1
Abstract