{"id":74902,"date":"2021-04-14T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74902"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:52:08","slug":"digital-upskilling-in-legal-more-than-just-new-technology-dolinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/04\/14\/digital-upskilling-in-legal-more-than-just-new-technology-dolinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital upskilling in legal: More than just new technology [Dolinsky]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalexecutiveinstitute.com\/practice-innovations-april-2021-digital-upskilling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Digital upskilling in legal: More than just new technology<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from legalexecutiveinstitute.com by Bob Dolinsky; with thanks to Gabe Teninbaum for this resource<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How many law firms have digital upskilling programs for their lawyers and staff members? Based on what I hear and read, very few, if any.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amazon, for example, recently announced a commitment of more than $700 million to its \u201cUpskilling 2025\u201d program,\u00a0an internal training initiative designed to promote customer satisfaction and worker advancement. Another example is PwC, which has a digital upskilling program to develop its in-house talent pool called \u201cNew world. New skills.\u201d In 2019, PwC announced that it would invest $3 billion into job training for its 275,000 employees around the world, enhancing its workforce and client service delivery to better address emerging digital needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The goals of these and similar initiatives is to help ensure that employees have the skills in the digital arena to be successful, to position these organizations as preferred employers, and to provide customer and client service excellence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also from Gabe:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geeklawblog.com\/2021\/04\/the-geek-in-review-ep-112-dan-packel-on-the-rise-of-distributed-law-firms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Geek in Review Ep. 112 \u2013 Dan Packel on the Rise of Distributed Law Firms<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; from geeklawblog.com by\u00a0Greg Lambert\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Marlene Gebauer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2021\/05\/can-justice-be-served-on-zoom\/618392\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Zoom Court Is Changing How Justice Is Served<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; ftom theatlantic.com by Eric Scigliano<br \/>\n<em>For better, for worse, and possibly forever<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cVirtual justice\u201d (the preferred, if unsettling, term) is an emergency response to a dire situation. But it is also a vision some judicial innovators had long tried to realize. One leading booster, Michigan Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack, told me that going online can make courts not only safer but \u201cmore transparent, more accessible, and more convenient.\u201d Witnesses, jurors, and litigants no longer need to miss hours of work and fight traffic. Attorneys with cases in multiple courts can jump from one to another by swiping on their phones.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital upskilling in legal: More than just new technology &#8212; from legalexecutiveinstitute.com by Bob Dolinsky; with thanks to Gabe Teninbaum for this resource Excerpt: How many law firms have digital upskilling programs for their lawyers and staff members? Based on what I hear and read, very few, if any. 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