Richard Granat, Esq., of the American Bar Association eLawyering Task Force has posted video and slides of his free Webinar entitled Unbundled Legal Services.
The Webinar is part of CALI‘s free course entitled Topics in Digital Law Practice.
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Granat on Unbundled Legal Services Online
March 3, 2012Goodenough and Lauritsen, eds.: Educating the Digital Lawyer
January 30, 2012Professor Oliver Goodenough of Vermont Law School and Harvard’s Berkman Center Law Lab, and Marc Lauritsen, Esq., of Capstone Practice Systems have edited a new book entitled Educating the Digital Lawyer (New Providence, NJ: Matthew Bender, 2012).
Click here to access an EPUB ebook version of the book free of charge. (If you need an EPUB reader, try the Firefox EPUB Reader extension.)
According to the introduction, the book chapters are based on papers presented at “a pair of conferences — one in October 2010 at Harvard Law School and one in April 2011 at Columbia Law School — that brought together several dozen academics and practitioners who are deeply interested in the technology of law and how law schools and other institutions should educate students and lawyers about it.”
Here is the table of contents:
- Brian Donnelly, What Does “Digital Lawyer” Mean?
- Marc Lauritsen, Lawyering in an Age of Intelligent Machines
- David M. Blaszkowsky and Matthew Reed, Meta-What? Lawyers, Legal Training, and the Rise of Meta-Data for Digital Securities and Other Financial Contracts
- Harry Lewis, Under the Hood of the Internet
- Jeanne Eicks, Educating Superior Legal Professionals: Successful Modern Curricula Join Law and Technology
- Brock Rutter, Survey of Existing Courses in Lawyer Use of Technology
- Fred Galves, Teaching Litigation Technology
- Ronald W. Staudt, Cyberclinics: Law Schools, Technology, and Justice
- Paul Maharg, Simulation: A Pedagogy Emerging from the Shadows
- Stephanie Kimbro, What Should Be in a Digital Curriculum: A Practitioner’s Must Have List
- Barbara L. Bernier and F. Dennis Green, Law School Reset — Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Second Life
- Michael G. Bennett, A Critical Embracing of the Digital Lawyer
- Gregg Gordon, The Digital Lawyer’s Evolving Education in Scholarly Research
HT @stephkimbro.
Lauritsen, Kimbro, and Granat on Virtual Law Practice: Basic Concepts
September 28, 2011Marc Lauritsen, Esq., of Capstone Practice Systems; Stephanie L. Kimbro, Esq., of Kimbro Legal Services and VLOTech; and Richard S. Granat, Esq., of The Granat Group, have posted slides from their presentation: Virtual Law Practice: Basic Concepts, given 27 September 2011.
Click here for video of the presentation. (HT @stephkimbro).
The presentation was sponsored by the American Bar Association’s eLawyering Task Force, of which Mr. Lauritsen and Mr. Granat are co-chairs.
The presentation explains the basic concepts of virtual law practice and elawyering; describes the benefits of virtual law practice; furnishes examples of virtual law firms and their technology; discusses ethical issues arising from virtual law practice; and explores practical aspects of running a virtual law practice.
Many of the ideas introduced in the presentation are explained in more detail in Ms. Kimbro’s recent book, Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online.
[Updated 9 October 2011 to correct URL for video.]
Rutter & Goodenough on Digital Lawyering in the Law School Curriculum
June 29, 2010Brock Rutter, Esq. of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Professor Oliver R. Goodenough of Vermont Law School and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, will present a paper entitled Digital Lawyering in the Law School Curriculum, at SubTech 2010: The 11th International Conference on Substantive Technology in Legal Education and Practice, to be held 1-3 July 2010, at the University of Zaragoza, in Zaragoza, Spain. Here is the abstract:
Developments in technology have long influenced the substance and practice of law. The advent of relatively cheap printing in the 19th Century, and its application to legal opinions after the decision in Wheaton v. Peters in 1834 was an essential – if underappreciated – factor in the move from aphorisms and treatise quotes to a more sophisticated mode of case analysis in American legal education and practice. The resulting Langdellian revolution, with its close attention to text and appellate opinions, has been dominant in American law schools so long that we take it for granted, but it is the product of a particular level of technological advancement. Computing and other digital technologies are similarly transforming how we practice law and think about legal issues, but these developments have yet to gain widespread acceptance into the law school curriculum. The time is ripe for correcting this omission: law students should be taught about the technologies affecting the legal profession and the effects they bring.
There are pioneering efforts to bridge this gap, a sadly-too-small group of courses focusing on the impact of digital technology to on substantive legal work. We joined this band this past year, and taught a course on digital lawyering at Vermont Law School in the spring of 2010. We are enthusiastic converts to the belief that courses about legal technology and the use of technology by lawyers should be included widely in the law school curriculum. This article will describe the factors that lead us to this conclusion, will outline subjects that could be explored in such courses, and will conclude with observations drawn from our own particular version of such a course. A brief syllabus is included as an appendix. We recognize that we included multiple subject areas that could have merited independent classes. Nevertheless, the fact that the course existed at all represents another foot in the door for teaching technology issues in law school.
For the full text of the paper, please contact the authors.
Thanks to the authors for providing the abstract.
