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The Future Law Podcast

Michael Madison

The legal system and the legal profession are changing faster than ever, via the development of legaltech, the rise of managed services and legal ops, and changes to student numbers and graduate outcomes. Our podcast is about exploring and understanding the changes. The Future Law Podcast cuts through the noise surrounding the future of law. We explore leadership and management, technology and law, law firms, courts, and other legal institutions, legal education and training, and the roles of law

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3.1 Lisa Leong, Innovating and Collaborating During...

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2024/08/19

How do you build and re-build collaborative and innovative cultures in a virtual environment? The future of law isn’t all face-to-face. In this reunion episode, original Future Law Podcast host Lisa Leong returns to talk with Mike Madison about pivoting her broadcasting and consulting practices in response to COVID shutdowns. [This episode was published originally on July 14, 2021.]

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2.12 Dan Linna, Teaching at the Intersections of Law...

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2024/08/12

Daniel W. Linna, Jr. is Senior Lecturer and Director of Law and Technology Initiatives at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, with an additional appointment in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. He’s also a former litigation partner in a large law firm in Detroit. He joined Mike Madison for an energetic conversation about legal system innovation and change, what law schools and law firms are doing right and wrong today, and about the need to ground innovation on

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2.9 Thomas Aertgeerts, CEO and Fo-Founder of European...

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2024/08/12

Thomas Aertgeerts is the co-founder and CEO of a Belgium-based LegalTech startup offering tax law services today and on a mission to transform the legal industry tomorrow. He talks with Mike Madison about the legal entrepreneur’s life, transitioning out of a classic law practice career, and the future of legal services. He is the author of a provocative essay in the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal in April 2020 titled, “Is my law firm preparing me for success in the next decade?“ His company,

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2.11 Michele DeStefano, Leader of Law Without Walls

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2024/08/12

Michele DeStefano is the founder and leader of Law Without Walls, or LWOW, a pioneering program for team- and project-based legal education that gathers students and partners from around the world. She is a full-time professor of law at the University of Miami who has also documented her methods and published research on their effectiveness. Mike Madison talks with Michele about the origins and impacts of LWOW. Michele DeStefano’s biography at the University of Miami. The Law Without Walls

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2.10 Cat Moon, Law Professor Making Law Better

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2024/08/12

Cat Moon leads the Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) at Vanderbilt University’s law school, a role that she took on after practicing law for nearly 20 years in Nashville, Tennessee. At PoLI and beyond, for the last several years she has become a passionate voice for making lawyers – and law – better. Mike Madison talks with Cat about PoLI, her vision for future lawyers, and her work helping to build and promote the Delta Model for lawyer competence. Cat Moon’s biography at Vanderbilt Law. The

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2.8 Lizzy Shackelford, Law, Diplomat, and Author

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2024/08/06

Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shackelford took her law degree and followed her dream to serve internationally, eventually spending more than seven years with the US Department of State in a series of posts in Eastern Europe and in Africa. Now retired from her diplomatic service and the author of a recent book on US foreign policy and diplomacy, in this podcast she reflects with Mike Madison on what it means to be a lawyer in a rapidly-evolving world. Link to the book: Elizabeth Shackelford, The Dissent Channel:

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2.5 Duc Trang on Competition and Change in the Legal...

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2024/08/05

Duc Trang, former private practitioner, general counsel, and now Managing Director of Major, Lindsey & Africa Transform Advisory Services, talks with Mike Madison about the changing marketplace for legal services and legal professionals and what those changes mean for private firms, for legal technology development, and for legal education. Also featured in this episode: Michael Madison, The Shapes and Letters of the Modern Lawyer (August 3, 2020). [This episode was published originally on

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2.6 Miguel Willis, Founder of the Access to Justice...

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2024/08/05

Miguel Willis caught the innovation and entrepreneurship bug early in his law school career, and he exited with a JD and leadership of an innovative program that blends technology skills, design, law, and the public interest. The Access to Justice Technology Fellows program connects law students with civil justiceorganizations for an immersive, 10-week, paid project-basedfellowship experience, changing lives in the community and priming the students for careers as 21st century lawyers. Mike Madison

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2.7 Tom Dreyfus, CEO and Co-Founder of Josef

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2024/08/05

Dean Dan Hunter chats with Tom Dreyfus, CEO and co-founder of the Melbourne-based legal technology firm Josef. Josef gives both practitioners and law students a leg up in creating bots – automated processes for legal analysis – without expecting lawyers to know how to code and without expecting that legal experts should be cut out of the professional loop. Dan and Tom talk about Tom’s path to leadership: a law degree, followed by an early career in law practice, and then the world of

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2.2 Kevin Miller, CEO of LegalSifter, on Building a...

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2024/07/29

Mike Madison sits down with Kevin Miller, CEO of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based LegalTech firm LegalSifter. LegalSifter is powered by tech developed in Pittsburgh’s AI and robotics ecology, centered on Carnegie Mellon University. A seasoned lawyer-entrepreneur, Kevin shares his thoughts about what lawyers and law firms are doing well, and what they can do better with AI-powered tools. [This episode was published originally on July 15, 2020.]

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2.4 Eric DeChant, a Recent Graduate on Technology and...

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2024/07/29

Eric DeChant isn’t a lawyer. He’s a recent graduate of the novel Master of Science in Law program at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, which aims to give STEM professionals (like Eric) enough grounding in law to accelerate them into careers as allied legal professionals but not so much that they qualify to become licensed lawyers. Mike Madison interviews Eric to hear how he found the Northwestern program, what he thought of his time in school, and his plans for a future in law –

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2.1 A Legal Education Call to Action with Trish White...

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2024/07/29

Mike Madison talks with Dean Trish White and Andrea Sinner, the chair and director of the American Bar Association Commission on the Future of Legal Education. The Commission wrapped up two years’ worth of work in March 2020 and published a report that reads more like a manifesto for change than a conventionally sober reflection. Find the ABA Commission Report online here. [This episode was published originally on June 15, 2020.]

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2.3 Dean Dan Rodriguez on Challenges and...

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2024/07/29

Dan Rodriguez, formerly Dean of Northwestern Law and president of the Association of American Law Schools, gets inside the future of legal education for the benefit of legal professionals and new law graduates. The interview is hosted by Mike Madison. [This episode was published originally on August 1, 2020.]

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1.13.1 Margaret Hagan, Director of the Legal Design...

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2024/07/22

Margaret Hagan, a global leader in bringing design to legal education and law practice, talks with Michael Madison about what design is and why design matters, supplying some of her own back story along the way. [This episode was published originally on December 8, 2019.]

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1.13.2 Legal Innovation and Design Thinking by...

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2024/07/22

Dan Hunter chats with University of Manchester students, Cian Heeley, Mandeep Hayer and Wunmi Akanji who were lucky enough to spend two weeks working with the geniuses at DWF on a legal design/innovation project with a very well-known sporting club in Manchester. Inspiring insights into the way that this sort of program changes how students think about the possibilities of law. [This episode was published originally on December 15, 2019.]

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1.13.0 Design Thinking in Law

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2024/07/22

In this, our last episode for 2019, we finally bring you our long-promised episode on Design Thinking in Law. The terrible trio talks around some spots from three guests, Margaret Hagan, Director of the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School; Carl White, CEO of CX in Law; and Cian Heely, a grad from Manchester University who worked with the amazing gang at DWF to solve for a client’s problem. We use these spots as a jumping off point for a wider chat about what design thinking in law looks

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1.13.3 Legal Innovation and the Client Experience...

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2024/07/22

Dan Hunter talks legal innovation and the future of law practice from the client’s perspective with Carl White, founder and now Director and Chief Experience Officer with CXINLAW. CXINLAW partners with law firms in Australasia and the UK for training and education on excellence in client service. [This episode was published originally on July 14, 2019.]

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1.12.1 Professor Nick James, Dean of Bond Law School

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2024/07/15

“The name’s Bond, Professor Nick James from Bond.” Seriously, I can’t tell you how long I’ve waited to use that joke. In this interview, Dan (that’s me) interviews Nick James, the dean of Bond Law. We chat about his take on the future of legal education in Australia, and what Bond are doing to push the boundaries. Nick is an amazing scholar and teacher, and Bond has the best ratings in the country for student engagement and satisfaction with teaching. Nick talks about how the future looks from this

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1.12.3 Professor Lesley Hitchens, Dean of UTS Law School

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2024/07/15

Dean Dan has been chatting with a lot of deans of late, and in this interview he talks with Dean Lesley Hitchens of the University of Technology, Sydney. In 2018 Professor Hitchens received the Financial Times Australian Legal Innovator Award, and her law school has pioneered a Legal Futures and Technology major. Listen as we chat about the kind of skills, knowledge, and attributes that law grads need to future-proof themselves.

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1.12.2 Professor George Williams AO, Dean of USNW Law...

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2024/07/15

We chat with Prof George Williams AO, dean of UNSW Law School. George has thought a great deal about what the future of law should look like, and when he took over the law school he conducted a listening tour with a huge range of stakeholders of his school. We talked with him about the challenges facing legal education, and how one of the most prestigious schools in the country is addressing the opportunities ahead. [This episode was published originally on November 10, 2019.]

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