Changing Education Paradigm

ByMike McBride November 30, 2010November 30, 2010 Reading Time: 1 minute

Saw this video over at Jim Canterucci’s blog originally. It certainly makes you wonder about the way we educate children, and how the education models hasn’t changed, despite the fact that the world has changed in most every other way. As I watched it though, I began to wonder how this applies to law schools. Are law schools also pursuing an education that isn’t necessarily relevant to the legal industry?

Having never attended law school, but working with the products of that system every day, I’m curious to see what others think about the law school dynamic. Lawyers, is legal education helping, or hurting, innovation within the legal industry?

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Linked: The current rate of technological change means careerlong-learning is now a must
ByMike McBride March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

Imagine a world where every technical skill you now have, will be somewhat useless in 5 years? Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine it:

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Linked: The Lonely, Pixelated Hell of Networking During the Pandemic
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Most of these sound awful, and the ones that are “not so voluntary” attempts to make sure workers are engaged sound even worse.

Actually, I suspect they are doing a lot more harm to engagement than good.

There are ways to network during this time. They’re different, they’re a little more work, and they take some getting used to. But they don’t need to be ridiculous, and they definitely don’t need to be forced.

In fact, this is a great time to simply send someone a note asking for 15-30 minutes of their time. Most of us are pretty open to doing exactly that with coworkers or peers in our industry. I’d be happy to find some time to have a conversation with you about my industry, or mental health, or blogging. Or even to just have a coffee or beer with virtually. We don’t even need to be on our webcams if you don’t want.

See, isn’t that better than having 50 people on mute while the CEO talks, or getting randomly matched with coworkers?

Ugh, the introvert in me shudders to think about some of these. Please, don’t. Just ask someone to get a coffee like we used to.

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Linked: How The Pandemic Is Forever Changing The Employer-Employee Relationship. And Why That Matters.
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There is a lot to think about in the article below, things that many companies are still trying to figure out, because the changes we’ve made over the last few months when it comes to where work gets done, are not going away any time soon. “The tools offices provide natively, the utilities and services…

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ByMike McBride September 16, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Stephen is also right to point out that the industry really hasn’t figured out how to make this work. Clients increasingly want firms to use AI to reduce billable hours; lawyers don’t want to use technology that makes it harder to meet their billable-hour requirements.

This sounds like an impasse. One that will require some innovative thinking and partnership between firms and clients.

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According to research from Office Team, 63% of senior managers said their company is “very supportive of their staff’s efforts to achieve work-life balance.” However, only 34% of employees agreed with this statement. I think the disconnect comes from what we tell the people who work for us and what the organization actually requires of them. Let…

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