With each passing week, it’s becoming clearer that many state bars and supreme courts are getting serious about regulatory reform. One of the many fruits in this effort is the above presentation, which I encourage readers to review and download.
The presentation was prepared by Alice Mine and
My fundraising work for the Institute for the Future of Law Practice has required me to delve into the equities of modern legal education, particularly around the debt loads and employment prospects of historically underrepresented groups. This is because virtually all potential benefactors want diversity
For this week’s feature post (181), Legal Evolution is pleased to welcome guest contributor Neil Hamilton, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. who provides us with a remarkable window into the Competency-Based Medical Education (CMBE), which is a movement that is now more than 20 years
It’s a long story I don’t often tell my colleagues in the legal field, partially because it is long and attention spans are short, and partially because they’ll just find it confusing. But before I went to law school (at age 35), I was a firefighter/paramedic for nine years. See Post 070 (full story for
Today’s feature post (Post 175) is a groundbreaking case study of how to create a modern policy management system, from identification of need to design to content to successful implementation. It comes to us from a multidisciplinary team inside the legal department of VillageMD, a high-growth healthcare and technology company based in
The title of this article is based on an open-ended question presented to more than 3,800 professionals who responded to ALM Intelligence’s recent Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey (ALM Survey).
Granted, this is a population of very busy people, so not everyone took the time to
For today’s special guest post (170), I’ve asked Austen Parrish, the Dean of my home institution, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, to share the details of our fall 1L program.
If we combine two obvious truths—that legal education is slow to change and Covid-19 changes everything—the optimal response is far from
This week’s featured contributor (Post 166) is Lori Mihalich-Levin, a partner in the Health Care practice at Dentons in Washington, DC, and the founder of Mindful Return, an organization that helps new parents navigate the back-to-work transition. The full philosophy of Mindful Return is contained in Lori’s 2017 book, Back to
Today Legal Evolution is proud to publish the founder story of Areias Advogados, a Portuguese business law boutique with offices in Chaves, Porto, and Lisbon. The story (Post 164) is written by David Salgado Areias, the 36-year old managing partner.
Legal Evolution’s summer publication schedule started Sunday with Jason Barnwell’s magnificent post on designing knowledge work, see Post 159, and will continue each week until Labor Day.
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