Because of technological, economic, and market pressures, the way we practice law is rapidly evolving. Law students, are you prepared for these changes in law practice? Law faculty, are you preparing your students? CALI is offering a FREE nine-week online course on Topics in Digital Law Practice to help address these issues starting Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2pm ET.
About the Course
This course is designed to provide an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with respect to technology. It will introduce law students for real-world situations that they will encounter in the job market and point law professors to new avenues to cover in their courses.
The course will run 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. There will be no formal assessment like midterms or a final exam.
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.
The course is free, but you must register.
Schedule
Week 1: The Virtual Law Office
Friday, Feb. 10, 2-3pm ET
Stephanie Kimbro, Attorney and Technology Consultant
virtuallawpractice.org
Week 2: Document Automation
Friday, Feb. 17, 2-3pm ET
Marc Lauritsen, Attorney and Document Automation Expert
capstonepractice.com/marc
Week 3: Technology in the Courts
Friday, Feb. 24, 2-3pm ET
Guest Speaker Jim McMilliam
Principle Court Technology Consultant
Natonal Center for State Couirts
https://www.ncsc.org/contact/staff/jim-mcmillan.aspx
Week 4: Unbundling Legal Service Delivery
Friday, Mar. 2, 2-3pm ET
Richard Granat, President, SmartLegalForms & DirectLaw
elawyeringredux.com/promo/about/
Week 5: Free Legal Research Tools
Friday, Mar. 9, 2-3pm ET
Sarah Glassmeyer, Director of Content Development / Law Librarian, CALI
Week 6: Contract Standardization
Friday, Mar. 16, 2-3pm ET
Kingsley Martin, President
kiiac.com & contractstandards.com
Week 7: Online Legal Forms in Legal Aid
Friday, Mar. 30, 2-3pm ET
Ronald W. Staudt, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
www.a2jauthor.org
Week 8: Unauthorized Practice of Law in the 21st Century
Friday, Mar. 30, 2-3pm ET
William Hornsby, Staff Counsel at American Bar Association
Week 9: Social Media for Lawyers
Friday, Apr. 6, 2-3pm ET
Ernest Svenson, Attorney at Law
ernietheattorney.net
Questions, comments, suggestions?
Contact me at the email address below:
John Mayer, Executive Director
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction / CALI
Email: jmayer@cali.org
Twitter: @johnpmayer
Web: www.cali.org