For today’s feature post (205), Legal Evolution is pleased to welcome back guest contributor Randy Kiser, whom I’ve previously described as the “preeminent scholar of the U.S. legal profession” and the world’s leading authority on legal decision making. See Post 110 (reviewing Kiser’s scholarship and surprising career along with his most recent book,
For today’s feature post (200), we’re pleased to welcome guest contributor Rafael Figueiredo, who currently serves as Director, Strategic Projects & Investments for ALL Energy US, Inc., a Houston-based integrated group of energy companies focused on the development and operation of energy infrastructure assets — pipelines, storage, terminals and production facilities. Rafael is also an adjunct law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches courses on professional purpose/identity, legal innovation and the business of law.
I was introduced to Rafael through Cat Moon, as Rafael is an alumnus of Vanderbilt Law’s Certificate Program in Law and Innovation. Indeed, in talking with Rafael, he described himself as part of the first generation of general counsels who have consciously acquired a T-shaped skillset in order to create a legal department that can fully deliver for the business.Continue Reading Guest contributor Rafael Figueiredo (199)
There’s a lot of cool things happening in legal innovation these days, though not all of it is high tech. Thus, over this summer, I’ve made an effort to publish content that has nothing to do with data, process, or technology but a lot to do with lawyers living their professional values and trying to make a difference. See, e.g., Post 166 (Lori Mihalich-Levin writing about efforts to improve the attorney-parent experience); Post 181 (Neil Hamilton bringing the competency-based medical education movement to a legal audience).
Today’s guest contributor, Terrance Stroud, very much fits that mold.
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“The profession has a responsibility to assure that its regulations are conceived in the public interest and not in furtherance of parochial or self-interested concerns of the bar.” This above sentence comes from ¶12 of the Preamble of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
As states increasingly
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
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
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
