Future Law Podcast

Professor Michele Pistone from the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University in Philadelphia talks with Dan Hunter and Mike Madison about disruption in law practice and legal education, about change management in higher education, and about working across the university to build new, cross-disciplinary training for law.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Mark Tushnet of Harvard Law School is our guest.  Professor Tushnet talks with Dan Hunter about the changes that he's seen in US legal education over his long and illustrious career, and offers some suggestions regarding how US law schools need to change to respond to the challenges ahead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

US law schools today face a double shot of post-2008 challenges. They face changing demand for legal services and legal education, plus changing demographics of prospective students. Law faculty are just now starting to accept that those factors point to large scale disruption of the traditional law school.  Lisa, Dan, and Mike take an inventory of how US law schools got where they are, look at the likely shape of change to come, and - as always - deliver some practical take-aways.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan and Mike talk with Gordon Smith, Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU) about emerging challenges and opportunities for US law schools.  Gordon's research and teaching background is in business law and entrepreneurship.  In this interview, he talks about bringing his expertise to bear on innovation and entrepreneurship inside a law school.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lisa Leong, Dean Dan, and Mike Madison take a tour through strategies for initiating innovation and change, for people who don't have "innovating" in their professional portfolios - and who may not have budgets.  They have case studies to share, from their own experiences in law firms, companies, and law schools.  Anyone can put themselves in a position to innovate.  Here's how to get started.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dean Dan talks with Professor Ray Campbell, from Peking University-School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China. Before becoming a law professor, Ray clerked for U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court, and was a partner in the multinational law firms of Kirkland & Ellis and Jenner & Block. Listen to his fascinating take on the future of law and the future of legal education in a globalised world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dean Dan and Mike Madison talk about whether the future has caught up with law schools. They catch up with Professor Ray Campbell, from Peking University-School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, who suggests that the future of legal education doesn't look like the way that we've always done things...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lisa Leong and her business partner Tristan Forrester spent some time hanging out with the delightful Professor Dan Klein from Stanford University.  In this full interview, you will learn: - how to think like an Improviser and why it is important for cultivating an innovation mindset- how improv can encourage lawyer creativity - a few simple improv games like sound ball, and word-at-a-time proverb. How do you encourage creativity in your organisation? Let us know at http://thefuturelawpodcast.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lisa Leong introduces us to her friend Professor Dan Klein from Stanford University aka "Dan the Improv Man". In this episode our three co-hosts, Dean Dan, Lethal Lisa and Most Interesting Mike explore how improvisation exercises can help lawyers develop an innovation mindset.  Have you tried using improv to unlock lawyer creativity? Add to the conversation at http://thefuturelawpodcast.com/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mick Sheehy is a partner at PWC and was formerly a general council at Telstra. He is the founder of CLOC in Australia and joins Dan Hunter to talk about legal ops, managed services, and why law firms should be worried about how the Big 4 are moving into NewLaw.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.