Category Archives: Training

Access to Justice Technology Fellows: students can be professional

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Seattle University law student, Miguel Willis, has developed an innovative legal placement programme – Access to Justice Technology Fellows (A2J Tech Fellows) – that enters its second year with major endorsement from the Legal Services Corporation, (LSC). The LSC is giving $100,000 and will support 21 fellows within the legal services movement for which it … Continue reading Access to Justice Technology Fellows: students can be professional →

Law Schools, Technology and Access to Justice

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Proposals  by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to upend the traditional organisation of legal education in England and Wales offer the opportunity for discussion of the importance of covering the impact of technology on the training of lawyers. The SRA intends to end the autonomy of law schools to pass students for both the academic … Continue reading Law Schools, Technology and Access to Justice →

Legal Education, the profession and technology: a publisher’s challenge

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A paper from Thomson Reuters throws down a challenge, mainly directed at US law schools, as to  how they should respond to the advances of technology in legal services. This is based on what might be described as a pretty ‘quick and dirty’ methodology: 30 interviews, six examples of good practice and a consequent eight … Continue reading Legal Education, the profession and technology: a publisher’s challenge →

Ulster University’s Legal Innovation Centre: a new initiative opens for business

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The UK’s first Legal Innovation Centre, on the model of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford in the US, was officially opened in Belfast on Tuesday night. An audience of over 200 assembled to welcome its opening at Ulster University.  The centre is a collaboration between the Schools of Law and Computing and Intelligent Systems, … Continue reading Ulster University’s Legal Innovation Centre: a new initiative opens for business →

Digital and Simulation in the Teaching of Law : Emerging from the Shadows

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Paul Maharg, Professor Australian National University College of Law and Director of PEARL (Profession, Education and Regulation in Law) In a recent post on this blog Gina Alexandris outlines the approaches taken by Ryerson University in its Legal Practice Program.  It is an ambitious program, based on simulation methods of learning, teaching and assessment, and … Continue reading Digital and Simulation in the Teaching of Law : Emerging from the Shadows →