Legal Team of the Future

Author: Adam Curphey
Publisher: London School of Economics and Political Science
ISBN: 9781913019648
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The legal profession needs more than law. Whether you are a student, a law school, a university, a law firm or an in-house legal team, The Legal Team of the Future is the definitive guide to understanding and building the holistic skills required of those working in legal services now and in the future. Highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary teams working collaboratively to solve legal problems, the book introduces a 'Law+' model for the profession, comprising sixteen skills across four quadrants: Law+People, Law+Business, Law+Change and Law+Technology. As well as outlining each of the skills, the book explains how to build those skills as an individual, a law firm, an in-house team, a university or a law school. Designed for both lawyers and business professionals working in law, The Legal Team of the Future dispels the myth that the 'lawyer of the future' is solely responsible for the future of the profession, instead focusing on diverse individuals working within their own specializations. The Law+ model is more than an academic theory, containing real-world examples and case studies and devised by an expert in legal innovation who is still working in the field on a daily basis. This book is the guide you need to navigate the future of the legal profession and to stay ahead of the pack in delivering legal services to clients.

The Future of the Legal Services Corporation

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Future Law

Author: Lilian Edwards
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474417639
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
How will law, regulation and ethics govern a future of fast-changing technologies? Bringing together cutting-edge authors from academia, legal practice and the technology industry, Future Law explores and leverages the power of human imagination in understanding, critiquing and improving the legal responses to technological change. It focuses on the practical difficulties of applying law, policy and ethical structures to emergent technologies both now and in the future. It covers crucial current issues such as big data ethics, ubiquitous surveillance and the Internet of Things, and disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles, DIY genetics and robot agents. By using examples from popular culture such as books, films, TV and Instagram - including 'Black Mirror', 'Disney Princesses', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who' and 'Rick and Morty' - it brings hypothetical examples to life. And it asks where law might go next and to regulate new-phase technology such as artificial intelligence, 'smart homes' and automated emotion recognition.

Building an Outstanding Legal Team

Author: Bjarne P. Tellmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911078203
Category : Corporate lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this practical "how to" guide, Bjarne P Tellmann, General Counsel draws upon more than 20 years of leading top legal organisations to provide a structured plan for upgrading your legal team in an age of disruption.The challenge: In an era of exponential change, the role of the general counsel (GC) has become one of the most complex, intense and challenging in the corporate world. GCs, must lead, unify and inspire diverse groups of people across the globe with subtlety and diplomacy. The stakes have never been higher and the consequences of getting it wrong can be existential. GCs must react to these challenges with ever-fewer resources and at a time when the legal profession itself is undergoing disruption.The response: To succeed in this "new normal", GCs must become their own chief executives. They must lead, communicate, inspire, build cultures, manage talent, formulate and execute strategies, ensure efficacy, anticipate and manage risk and manage quality control - all in addition to being top-notch lawyers. This book gives GCs the battle plan they need to get there in three parts.

Legal Design

Author: Corrales Compagnucci, Marcelo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 183910726X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
This innovative book proposes new theories on how the legal system can be made more comprehensible, usable and empowering for people through the use of design principles. Utilising key case studies and providing real-world examples of legal innovation, the book moves beyond discussion to action. It offers a rich set of examples, demonstrating how various design methods, including information, service, product and policy design, can be leveraged within research and practice.

Justice for All

Author: Jim Newton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594482700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.

Working Together in Law

Author: Eileen A. Scallen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594605918
Category : Practice of law
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Modern legal professionals frequently work in small groups and teams. This concise and practical book is designed to help current and future legal professionals develop the cooperative and collaborative skills they need to work with others effectively. This book is not a cliché-laden plea for teamwork in all circumstances. The fundamental premise of the text is that when collaborative work is performed appropriately and thoughtfully, the advantages significantly outweigh the disadvantages. The book explains: (1) when group work is more beneficial than individual work; (2) when a small work group project is more appropriate than a team project; and (3) when some teams are likely to outperform others. This pioneering book helps readers maximize the benefits -- and minimize problems -- when working collaboratively. It incorporates the best contemporary research on group dynamics, conflict resolution, and decision making. To illustrate these concepts, the text uses a wide range of examples -- including the growing use of virtual legal work groups or teams. The book is designed to be used as a supplemental text in a variety of courses or as a guide in any law firm or in-house counsel setting in which legal professionals are expected to work together to produce high quality legal work.

The Future of the Professions

Author: Richard Susskind
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198841892
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 589

Book Description
With a new preface outlining the most recent critical developments, this updated edtion of The Future of the Professions predicts how technology will transform the work of doctors, teachers, architects, lawyers, and many others in the 21st century, and introduces the people and systems that may replace them.

Online Courts and the Future of Justice

Author: Richard Susskind
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192849304
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
In this book Richard Susskind, a pioneer of rethinking law for the digital age confronts the challenges facing our legal system and the potential for technology to bring much needed change. Drawing on years of experience leading the discussion on conceiving and delivering online justice, Susskind here charts and develops the public debate.

Envisioning Our Preferred Future

Author: Bradford Lee Eden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442266937
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, directions on research in the 21st-century academic library, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management. Data management services are highlighted in the context of a consortium of smaller liberal arts and regional institutions who share a common institutional repository. Survey research plays a role in a number of chapters. One provides insight into how academic libraries are currently approaching web services, web applications, and library websites. A second survey is used to explore the role of librarians as web designers, and provides detailed information related to job titles, job duties, time percentages related to duties, and other duties outside of web design. Comments of those surveyed are included and make interesting reading and a deeper understanding of this new function in libraries. More generally, is a survey study exploring how librarians feel about the changes that are currently happening within the profession, as well as how these changes have personally affected their job duties and their current job assignments. Case studies are include one that features QuestionPoint in the context of a cooperative virtual reference service; another shows how research and scholarship can be disseminated using social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar, among others; a other studies explore the importance of user engagement and buy-in before moving forward on digitization; and one shows how information architecture and usability emerge from the redesign of a public library website and whose successful completion involves user surveying, focus groups, peer site reviews, needs analysis, and usability testing. Two chapters deal with the changing legal context: the importance and understanding of copyright and author rights in the 21st-century academic library, and the basics Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.