Students prepare for the challenges and opportunities of practicing law successfully in a rapidly changing business, technological and regulatory environment. Weekly class meetings are structured as partners' meetings among partners in a (fictional) innovative law firm. Themes include: access to justice and the problem of affordable legal services; changes in and challenges to the “big law" paradigm; how technological developments are changing the practice of law; legal business regulation and alternative business structures; innovation in legal education; and diversity and equity in the profession.
Students prepare for the challenges and opportunities of practicing law successfully in a rapidly changing business, technological and regulatory environment. Weekly class meetings are structured as partners' meetings among partners in a (fictional) innovative law firm. Themes include: access to justice and the problem of affordable legal services; changes in and challenges to the “big law" paradigm; how technological developments are changing the practice of law; legal business regulation and alternative business structures; innovation in legal education; and diversity and equity in the profession.
