What’s a lawyer now? Law’s shift from practice to skill<\/strong><\/a> — from forbes.com by Mark Cohen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nExcerpts:<\/em><\/p>\nWhy does this distinction matter? Because law\u2014like so many industries\u2014is undergoing a tectonic shift.<\/span> <\/strong>It is morphing from a lawyer dominated, practice-centric, labor-intensive\u00a0guild\u00a0to a tech-enabled, process and\u00a0data-driven, multi-disciplinary global industry<\/strong>.<\/span> The career paths, skills, and expectations of lawyers are changing. So too are how, when, and on what financial terms they are engaged; with whom and from what delivery models they work; their performance metrics, and the resources\u2014human and machine\u2014they collaborate with. \u00a0Legal practice is shrinking and the business of delivering legal services is expanding rapidly.<\/p>\nLaw is no longer the exclusive province of lawyers.<\/span> Legal knowledge is not the sole element of legal delivery\u2014business and technological competencies are equally important.<\/span><\/strong> It\u2019s a new ballgame\u2014one that most lawyers are unprepared for.
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\nHow did we get here and are legal careers\u00a0 for most a dead end? Spoiler alert: there\u2019s tremendous opportunity in the legal industry. The caveat: all lawyers must have basic business and technological competency<\/span> <\/strong>whether they pursue practice careers or leverage their legal knowledge as a skill in legal delivery and\/or allied professional careers.<\/p>\nUpskilling\u00a0the legal profession is already a key issue, a requisite for career success. Lawyers must learn\u00a0new skills\u00a0like project management, data analytics, deployment of technology, and process design to leverage their legal knowledge. Simply knowing the law will not cut it anymore.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
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\nI really appreciate the work of the above two men whose articles I’m highlighting here. I continue to learn a lot from them and am grateful for their work.<\/span><\/p>\nThat said, just like it’s a lot to expect a faculty member (in higher ed) who teaches online to not only be a subject matter expert, but also to be skilled in teaching, web design, graphic design, navigation design, information design, audio design, video editing, etc…it’s a lot to expect for a lawyer to be a skilled lawyer, business person, and technician. I realize that Mark was only saying a basic level of competency…but even that can be difficult to achieve at times. Why? Because people have different skillsets, passions, and interests. One might be a good lawyer, but not a solid technician…or vice versa. One might be a solid professor, but isn’t very good with graphic design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From DSC: The two postings below show the need for more collaboration and the use of teams: The future of law and computational technologies: Two sides of the same coin — from legaltechlever.com by Daniel Linna Jr. Excerpt (emphasis DSC): An increasing number of lawyers today work with allied professionals to improve processes, better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,356,174,86,127,45,829,72,298,403,71,37,3,825,102,7,830,285,15,62,309,269,204,480,188,460,195,118,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-change","category-collaboration","category-computer-science","category-cost-of-legal-services-including-access","category-daniel-s-christian","category-data-related-items","category-ethics","category-faculty-staff","category-future","category-higher-education","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-lifelong-learning","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-professional-development","category-programming","category-society","category-teaching-online","category-technology-general","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-using-teams","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68322"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68336,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68322\/revisions\/68336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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