Our legal education and licensing systems produce one kind of lawyer. The legal market of the near future will need another kind. If we can't close this gap fast, we'll have a very serious problem.
I think one of the dangers that I see manifesting in my Eastern European jurisdiction is lawyers spending too much time signalling unlicensed practice of law than seeking to understand if those models of business work and if they could learn something from them.
I have long believed that people and organizations don't change until it hurts too much NOT to change. In the law, this is inherently true. What I saw, as I stared out MY window, was a long slow and painful crumbling of institutions. For those unwilling to be part of that (and who would blame them?) I remind you, Jordan, of something I proposed when you and I shared a podium in South Carolina: The Johns Hopkins Hospital model of law firms. Further thinking since then, however, would have me add that the 20- and 30-year-olds should run the place.
I think one of the dangers that I see manifesting in my Eastern European jurisdiction is lawyers spending too much time signalling unlicensed practice of law than seeking to understand if those models of business work and if they could learn something from them.
Excellent!
I have long believed that people and organizations don't change until it hurts too much NOT to change. In the law, this is inherently true. What I saw, as I stared out MY window, was a long slow and painful crumbling of institutions. For those unwilling to be part of that (and who would blame them?) I remind you, Jordan, of something I proposed when you and I shared a podium in South Carolina: The Johns Hopkins Hospital model of law firms. Further thinking since then, however, would have me add that the 20- and 30-year-olds should run the place.
As former US Army Chief of Staff Eric Shenseki observed, “if you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.”