{"id":63660,"date":"2018-05-14T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=63660"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:58:59","slug":"what-blue-sky-thinking-about-the-future-of-legal-education-might-tell-us-about-the-relationship-between-big-law-legal-institutions-of-higher-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/05\/14\/what-blue-sky-thinking-about-the-future-of-legal-education-might-tell-us-about-the-relationship-between-big-law-legal-institutions-of-higher-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"What blue-sky thinking about the future of legal education might tell us about the relationship between Big Law &#038; legal institutions of higher learning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2018\/05\/11\/a-kirkland-ellis-law-school-crystal-ball-gazing-on-the-future-of-legal-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Law Firm Disrupted: A Kirkland &amp; Ellis Law School? Crystal Ball Gazing on the Future of Legal Ed <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from by Roy Strom<br \/>\n<em>What blue-sky thinking about the future of legal education might tell us about the relationship between Big Law and legal institutions of higher learning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The speech, which is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/link.law.com\/click\/13177247.99\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1wMDkxbVkwUGN0aw\/53986ed79d278444410000a0B979eee76\">worth watching here<\/a>\u00a0at the 4 hour and 41 minute mark, was a clear-eyed look at both the current state and the future possibilities of \u201cinnovation\u201d in the legal education market. Rodriguez comes to the conclusion that law schools that have focused on tech training or other skills aimed at changing legal services delivery have yet to \u201cmove the needle\u201d on demand for their students, rankings for their own schools or their own economic predicament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That is in large part due to at least 10 \u201cconditions\u201d that currently exist and are limiting legal education innovation. I won\u2019t list them all here, but they include the formal structure of offering only JD and LLM degrees; a university schedule that was created more than 100 years ago; and, of course, accreditation and credentialing requirements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One solution offered by Rodriguez: \u201cBlue-sky thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Firm Disrupted: A Kirkland &amp; Ellis Law School? Crystal Ball Gazing on the Future of Legal Ed &#8212; from by Roy Strom What blue-sky thinking about the future of legal education might tell us about the relationship between Big Law and legal institutions of higher learning. Excerpt: The speech, which is\u00a0worth watching here\u00a0at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,143,533,37,180,825,285,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-disruption","category-experimentation","category-future","category-innovation","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63662,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63660\/revisions\/63662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}