Do you really want to be
thinking about your legal problem constantly for the next several years?
Thus, the Romans were the first to have a class of people who spent their days
thinking about legal problems, and this transactions are handled by civil law notaries.
Last March, at the Legal IT conference I pleaded that lawyers should also be trained (or train themselves) «in innovation [by which I mean technological innovation]» and that, as a profession, we should therefore train ourselves to code and, more generally, to
think about legal problems systemically and algorithmically.
Not exact matches
The format of «Tigers» beautifully reflects this fear as the audience were able to see the doubts,
legal problems and
thought process that both Ayan and the actual film directors had
about releasing the film and using the MNC's real name instead of Lastavita Foods.
He added that he knew
about Espada's
legal problems (the Attorney General is suing him for looting $ 14 million from his network of nonprofit health centers, for one), but, «He's not the only one — many politicians have some
problems, mostly the Puerto Rican ones — but we
think he's the best [to serve] this community.»
Lawyers who participate in these activities, law firms that participate, who become part of the
thought leadership and who are seen by their clients as investing in
thought leadership and partnering with law schools like ours to help to better train and educate the next generation of lawyers who are
thought to be
thinking seriously
about the challenges facing not just lawyers of the
legal profession but our clients, I
think those kinds of lawyers will be rewarded because clients at all levels know that it's an increasingly complex and sophisticated and challenging world and they're looking for lawyers who understand that and can help them with their
problems.
The ability to
think creatively
about legal problems wasn't as useful.
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We are used to developing substantive expertise in unfamiliar
legal issues.95 An effective LRW
problem needs to challenge the students to
think creatively
about research, to use the available sources effectively, and to take on the role of counselor or advocate.96 Including the world broadens the possibilities for
problem issues and enriches existing
problems by adding a new dimension.
So how should we start
thinking about that when we
think about the construction of the
legal system and how to solve that
problem?
Usually we're talking
about young women who want to know these stories, they want to know the background those are the perfect candidates for the intake position because we don't want them trying to solve this person's
problem and most of us even after a few months in the
legal industry, we
think we have enough information to jump to solving.
What I
think is most unique
about it, however, is its multi-disciplinary approach, recognizing the sociological aspect of many
legal problems.
Today we're talking with our friend Nicole Bradick
about using design
thinking to build tech solutions to
legal problems, and
about why none of that can probably fix some of the
problems built into the
legal system today.
That is why the least you could do to yourself is diagnose what is actually your
problem because especially if you
think about the
legal profession, both in the US but also especially here in the UK, it hasn't actually changed much since Dickens» times in the last 200 years.
I
think that comes up a lot where lawyers, like many people, I don't want to make this just all
about lawyers but it is a specific
problem that we see in the
legal industry where lawyers just want an answer.
I guess maybe what I'm
thinking is that by opening up the window, by learning how to code, learning what's possible, it lets you see a different way of serving clients and solving
legal problems, and part of me
thinks that, as new possibilities come online, new ways of serving clients by building tools that fix things, like this parking ticket app, like a service that allows lawyers to build a referral network that makes them look more like a giant, spread out firm, and other things, as these possibilities come out there, you can stop
thinking about serving just one client's
legal needs, and start
thinking about solving that
legal problem for anyone who comes to you.
Sam Glover: You talked
about analyzing
legal issues from TV shows, for example, which some lawyers do that and I wonder if that is helpful in sort of branding and raising your profile, but I wonder
about it in terms of search engine optimization because people aren't searching for those kinds of
legal problems and the kinds of people that come across your post if it goes viral, I mean it sounds awesome to get thousands or hundreds of thousands of hits on a post, but those aren't clients so I wonder how you
think about stuff like that, you know kind of going for publicity seeking posts?
After engaging this afternoon in a discussion
about a number of issues related to ongoing access to justice, I continued
thinking about the barriers that stand between ordinary people with
legal problems and their effective access to justice.
That goes to something we've talked
about before on the podcast which is realize that lawyers tend to be myopic
thinking about, «There is a
legal problem and I have the solution to it,» rather than, «My client has a
problem, one aspect of which is a
legal problem that I was trained to solve in law school, but there's a bigger
problem that I can help solve.»
I
think they apply whether we're talking
about individuals who definitely are under - served by lawyers today, but I
think it goes all the way up to the largest clients, too, where there are large corporates that have all these
legal needs that aren't being met because it's just not either packaged or priced in a way that works for them to get these
problems solved.
Elie and Joe talk with Steve Silver of The
Legal Blitz
about all the off the field
problems associated with «OMG I
think that's brain coming out of his ear» - Ball.
A collection of essays
about improving access to justice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new
thinking about an old
problem... produced by the
legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birt
legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young
Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birt
Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birthday.
Legal blogs can help shape how those communities think about particular legal prob
Legal blogs can help shape how those communities
think about particular
legal prob
legal problems.
I don't
think we should stop talking
about AI, but I do
think we should focus on tackling
problems that are still plaguing the
legal industry that a robot drafting a
legal pleading from scratch can't solve.
The objective of this model is to provide a design language for
thinking about, and solving,
legal engineering
problems.
Since I've designated today as a day to
think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both
legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the
problem that produced Authorson v Canada.
And right now,
legal hackers seem to be getting their projects mainly from municipalities and a few «
thought leaders» within the academe — people who generally don't have the kind of deep knowledge
about legal problems facing solo and small - firm lawyers and their clients that would be necessary to come up with a list of
problems to solve.
More broadly, prior to being a lawyer, I used to be an avid reader of Edward de Bono's work on
thinking, including vertical, horizontal and parallel
thinking, along with his «Six Hats» approach to
thinking, and would like to re-read his work with an eye to seeing how applicable it would be to
thinking strategically
about legal problems.
Since I've designated today as a day to
think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both
legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the
problem that produced Authorson v Canada... [more]
It is hard to describe exactly, but I am
thinking really of inculcating a mind - set or habits of
thinking: approaching
legal problems as a lawyer
thinking about the practical needs of their client, as opposed to as an abstract, philosophical or intellectual
problem.
Do I even bother to contact you when I
think you are angry or an injustice collector and may be a
problem, a
legal risk, or will say negative things
about me or my company?
If you
think about it, all
legal problems were human
problems before they became
legal problems.