I am an accidental T-Shaped lawyer. See Post 043 (the intelligent design of future skilled legal professionals). I bring divergent perspectives to my practice because I trained as an engineer and an attorney. See Post 080 (discussing dual background). Both disciplines are knowledge work. And
We are at the end of the beginning of one of the most terrifying periods in modern economic history. An unexpected outside event has created massive unemployment, acute under-production, and isolated instances of tragic over-production all at once. We are creating a fiscal crisis and waiting for
We formed the Institute for the Future of Law Practice and its predecessor, the Tech Lawyer Accelerator (collectively “IFLP”), to test a number of concepts about legal education.
One such concept involved seeing whether an appropriately designed law program could duplicate the results of a leading
If you’ve read Legal Evolution Posts 154 and 155, you know that the Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP, “I-flip”) is at critical juncture. On Friday, we launch our third year of boot camps (a special Coronavirus version for 48 terrific law students from the
In his viral essay, “It’s Time to Build,” tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen argues that the colossal institutional failures
I was spurred by Jae Um’s Home Alone in New York (146) story here to write something about #makelawbetter dot org. (Many thanks for the shout-out, Jae!) After reading, I reached out to Bill who graciously accepted my offer to share
Last year, at the Make Law Better Conference, I spoke about how innovation is not a strategy but firms need an innovation strategy. I’ll provide a short recap but you can also watch a video of the presentation here.
Having an innovation strategy aligned to the firm’s
Henry Kissinger once observed that while history does not repeat itself it often offers useful lessons regarding the future. With this in mind, I thought might be useful to see what lessons the last two periods of economic adversity – the dot com implosion and
I might have the most fun job in the legal profession. I help Microsoft’s legal department build the future of our practice of law leading a program we call “Modern Legal.” Modern Legal is a spin-off of my prior operations role focused on innovation. This post offers
In 1665, Cambridge University closed because of the plague
Issac Newton decided to work from home
He discovered calculus & the laws of motion
Just saying
— Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave) March 4, 2020
In the span of the last week, virtually all of legal education has moved to an online format. See Paul Caron, “More than 185 Law Schools (93%) Have Moved Online Due to the Coronavirus,” TaxProf, Mar. 14, 2020. Per the above tweet from Paddy