More than 100 lawyers, deans and law professors met in New York on April 15 and 16 for the last of three conferences dubbed “Future Ed.” The conferences, spearheaded by New York Law School and Harvard Law School, were designed to swap ideas on how to update legal education, increase practical skills training, rein in costs and come up with ways to translate ideas into action.
Individuals and groups discussed projects that would leverage technology to improve education; rethink the law school admissions process; incorporate more transactional skills into curricula; and improve professional development. The culmination of the conference series was a vote among participants to allocate a fictional pot of money to the projects they thought most worthy.
