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Bridging the Gap: Actionable Opportunities for Firm-Academic Technology Collaboration - NOT CLE


Level: Advanced
Runtime: 61 minutes
Recorded Date: January 29, 2024
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This program is NOT eligible for CLE credit.
For NY - Difficulty Level: Experienced attorneys only (non-transitional)

Description

The disconnect between law school and practice has always been a challenge, and when it comes to legal tech the gap is even more significant. How can law schools build more future-ready lawyers? What do law firms want to see when hiring tech-fluent attorneys? How do we train future legal technologist better? The answer lies within collaboration, but it can be a challenge to identify, find and develop such partnerships.

This program will discuss how to pursue academic and law firm/legal entity collaboration that will better train law students to be tech fluent and tech forward practitioners ready to meet the ever-changing burden of technical competency required for the ethical practice of law. The discussion will draw on lessons learned through a series of prior, ongoing, and future collaborations which the panelists have been a part of, both collectively and individually.

These collaborations have allowed firm legal tech experts to have a direct hand in curriculum development and provided students with real-life exposure to a host of business, innovation problem-solving, design-thinking, and other tech-forward skills. Panelists will share their experience and insights on how partnerships can be established and sustained to meet the challenge of building the tech-fluent lawyers of the future.

The focus of the discussion will be to highlight best practices for making these types of partnerships practical and achievable for any interested academic or practitioner or vendor.

This program was recorded as part of Law.com's Legalweek Conference on January 29th, 2024.

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Panelists

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Michelle Hook Dewey

Legal Technologies Librarian
Georgia State University College of Law

Michelle Hook Dewey is the Legal Technologies Librarian in the Law Library, where she provides reference and legal research instruction to the Georgia State University College of Law community. In addition, she is a member of the Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative where she teaches and supports the programs and projects associated with the LAII certificate program.

Prior to joining the Georgia State University College of Law in 2022, Dewey worked in a variety of legal practice and legal education settings. Most notably Dewey spent five years as the Legal Research Services Manager for an Am Law 100 firm, where she managed the firm's national research team. In conjunction with the firm’s innovation group, Dewey and her research team served as the content matter experts on a host of firm-led data management, data integration, and technology projects. She has worked on projects as part of a law firm technology incubator program and is currently part of a team building a legal technology and innovation certificate program in the law school setting. She has presented at many national and regional conferences and written on legal technology issues. Dewey serves as an Executive Board Member for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).

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Patrick Parsons

Executive Director
Georgia State University College of Law

Patrick Parsons is the Executive Director of the Georgia State University College of Law as the school's Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative. In that role, he oversees both the existing Legal Analytics certificate program as well as the creation and implementation of a new Legal Technology & Innovation certificate program. He has been teaching a Legal Technologies Competencies class for several years and is developing new classes for the new certificate. He has seven years of experience in law school libraries and worked as a practicing attorney before entering law librarianship. He has presented at national and regional conferences and CLE programs and written about legal technology and innovation.

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Leigh Zeiser

Senior Manager of Innovation
BakerHostetler

Leigh Zeiser is the Senior Manager of Innovation for the IncuBaker Innovation team at the Am Law 100 law firm BakerHostetler. Incubaker won the 2022 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers award for Client Service Delivery and Zeiser was recognized as ILTA’s 2022 Innovative Leader of the Year. She is a 2023 Influential Women in Legal Technology honoree. As Innovation Manager, she champions the development and deployment of innovative technologies and processes to help the firm and its clients and create a competitive advantage.

Zeiser works with a myriad of legal technologies but has deep expertise in AI-enabled solutions, including generative AI, automation solutions such as robotic process automation and low/no code automation solutions, and in workflow redesign. She engages in strategic analyses of people, process, and technology to build trust, manage change, and drive process adoption within each innovation initiative. She was the first Legal Process Engineer and Legal Process Engineer Manager for the IncuBaker team and has applied her experience to contribute to Georgia State University’s Legal Analytics & Innovation Initiative programming. She has six years’ experience with IncuBaker and over 20 years’ experience consulting in the legal industry. Zeiser has presented at ILTA, on podcasts and written about legal technology and innovation topics.

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