Law’s shift from practice to skill

During a recent visit to the National University of Singapore Law School (NUS), I asked a first-year student what being a lawyer meant to him. His response was thoughtful and prescient: “I regard law as a skill. I plan to leverage my legal training and meld it with my passion for business, technology, and policy. For me, law is not about practice.” Out of the mouths of babes!

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Posted by on Nov 5, 2019 in Regulation, Strategy | 1 comment

Lawyers’ three mindsets for success in the technology age

I am delighted that Brian Tang has joined our merry band of contributors to Dialogue. Lawyers’ three mindsets for success in the technology age is his inaugural post.

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Posted by on Sep 3, 2019 in LawTech, Lawyers | 0 comments

Urgent: Law’s Looming Skills Crisis

Urgent: Law’s Looming Skills Crisis, today’s piece from the inimitable Mark Cohen, is a powerful wake-up call to the legal profession and its regulatory and educational institutions. I am publishing Law’s Looming Skills Crisis in part to help spread Mark’s message to the law schools of the world and in part to draw further attention to the Master of Legal Business which is being pioneered the College of Law. Mark and I both sit on the Master of Legal Business Program Board the and also contribute to the teaching of three of the subjects.  

Read why Mark writes “Law is mired in the mindset and training of the third industrial revolution“.

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Posted by on May 30, 2019 in Law schools, Talent | 0 comments

Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers, Part 3

Parts 1 and 2 of Mark Cohen’s Law’s Emerging Elite: Enterprise Legal Service Providers were published on Dialogue earlier in April. Today’s Part 3 concludes the series. I predict Mark’s essay will go down as a defining moment of insight into the transformation of business models on the supply-side of legal services.
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Posted by on Apr 30, 2019 in Legal services ecosystem, NewLaw business models | 0 comments

Remaking News of the Week: The best little law school in Australia

I recently joined a large crowd for breakfast in Melbourne to hear Foundation Dean Dan Hunter of the Swinburne Law School espouse why he is leading what he intends to be ‘the best little law school in Australia’.

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Posted by on Jul 26, 2018 in Law schools | 0 comments