Topics In Digital Law Practice (TDLP) takes a new approach to legal education: a nine-session webinar inviting participant interaction and collaboration, open to any person anywhere, developed for law faculty and students, but of utility to lawyers and technologists as well.
Title:
Date/Time/Place:
Friday, February 17, 2012
2pm-3pm Eastern (Note Time Zone!)
Speaker:
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| Marc Lauritsen |
Marc Lauritsen,
president of Capstone Practice Systems, is a lawyer
and educator with
over twenty years of pioneering leadership in advanced legal software.
He earned two degrees from MIT and the J.D. from Harvard Law School.
After practicing and supervising in legal aid offices, Marc returned to
Harvard as a fieldwork instructor, director of clinical programs, and a
senior
research associate. He directed Project Pericles, Harvard’s first major
research program in law and computers.
Capstone advises and builds systems for some of the top law firms and departments in the world, but is also energetically involved in pathbreaking projects on behalf of nonprofit legal organizations, such as LawHelp Interactive, which delivers smart forms for free to low-income people and their advocates.
Marc has lectured widely and published several hundred articles on the uses and implications of information technology in the legal profession. He is on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and Law and the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. He has trained hundreds of lawyers in the development and use of knowledge-based systems.
Marc co-originated the international SubTech conferences that began at Salzburg in 1990 and that continue to draw law school thought leaders every two years for rich exchanges about the technology of law. He is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and co-chairs the American Bar Association's eLawyering Task Force. The ABA recently published his The Lawyer's Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools.
Capstone advises and builds systems for some of the top law firms and departments in the world, but is also energetically involved in pathbreaking projects on behalf of nonprofit legal organizations, such as LawHelp Interactive, which delivers smart forms for free to low-income people and their advocates.
Marc has lectured widely and published several hundred articles on the uses and implications of information technology in the legal profession. He is on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and Law and the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. He has trained hundreds of lawyers in the development and use of knowledge-based systems.
Marc co-originated the international SubTech conferences that began at Salzburg in 1990 and that continue to draw law school thought leaders every two years for rich exchanges about the technology of law. He is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and co-chairs the American Bar Association's eLawyering Task Force. The ABA recently published his The Lawyer's Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools.
Credit:
Attorneys are responsible for applying for credit on their own. This appears to me to be a reasonable approach; let those of us who want the credit, apply for the credit! Either way, the educational value of the experience and community is unchanged.
Topic:
This course provides an overview of the changes that
are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with respect to
technology.
Structure:
The TDLP series runs for one hour a week for nine weeks and will
feature a different guest speaker each week. Each class will be
delivered via webcast and will have a 30 minute lecture presentation
followed by a question & answer period and an online, interactive
homework assignment for all course students to complete. IMO this interactivity offers an exceptional educational value; how often have you wanted to hang around after a CLE and talk things over with the other participants, but didn't because you had to rush off to some other business!
Access:
The audience for this seminar is primarily law students and law
faculty who will be given priority. Anyone else can join the course for
one or all of the sessions. The presentations will be recorded and
posted to the course blog.
Cost:
Free.
Registration:
Register for the course.
Host:
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of over 200 US law schools. Non-US
law schools, law firms, business schools, paralegal programs and
individuals can also join CALI to support its mission. More information
about CALI membership: http://www.cali.org/faq/8054.
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