Through established internal partnerships and a wide array of strategic department faculty, and external partnerships with other universities, local entrepreneurial think - tanks, edTech
startups, community services, and small businesses, events such
as PitchLX have the potential
to become a significant
solution to the
problem of how
to effectively cultivate pedagogically sound innovation within higher education.
Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying
to collect information
to provide tools
as both an intake and access
to justice
solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest
problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business
startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.