Preparing future generations of attorneys for what’s to come in the evolution of law is no easy task. As technology continues to stretch the boundaries of legal reasoning and what is doable at law offices across the world, so too must legal education adapt to changing times.

Few have witnessed this adaptation as intimately as Michael Hunter Schwartz, who recently started the next chapter of his long legal career as dean of University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. A California native, Schwartz is returning to his home state after serving as dean of the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas since 2013.