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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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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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1.11.2 Michelle Mahoney, Head of Innovation at King &...

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2024/07/08

Dan Hunter talks with Michelle Mahoney, the head of innovation at King & Wood Mallesons. She discusses the layered approach to technology and innovation that this elite, multinational firm provides, and divides up the task into four useful categories. [This episode was published originally on October 20, 2019.]

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1.11.3 Jonathan Patterson, Managing Director & Head...

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2024/07/08

Dean Dan chats with Jonathan Patterson, the Managing Director & Head of Development of DWF Ventures in Manchester, England. DWF is a fascinating example of a law firm that has embraced managed legal operations, legaltech, and design thinking. The firm’s incredibly successful listing this year on the London Stock Exchange was driven in large part by its ability to rethink how legal services are delivered, and we explore some of the ways in which DWF is how a tech firm. [This episode was

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1.11.1 Deepak Pillai, Data Analyst for Clayton Utz

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2024/07/08

We chat with Deepak Pillai, a data analyst who works at the blue chip Australian law firm Clayton Utz. The firm took the unusual step of building a separate data analytics practice to complement its traditional legal practice. Deepak talks about why law firms might do this, how their clients respond to this type of offering, and how a data scientist from a social media marketing background came to be up close and personal with a bunch of lawyers. [This episode was published originally on October

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1.11.0 Every Law Firm is a Tech Firm

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2024/07/08

We talk about the way that law firms have responded to the new technology world in different ways. This episode’s title comes from an observation we heard from the CEO of a legaltech firm who said that “every law firm is a tech firm.” What he meant was that every firm has an IT department, which isn’t that interesting a thought. But we realized that lots of firms do technology in interesting ways, and we wanted to explore these as lessons for everyone. We feature three different sorts of law firms,

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00:27:14

1.10 Where Have All The Lawyers Gone

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2024/07/01

Lisa Leong, Dean Dan Hunter, and Mike Madison take apart the challenges of modern law practice: clients increasingly want multi-functional capabilities from their lawyers and firms. The profession is full of talk of “T-shaped” lawyers, who combine deep legal knowledge and broad business and organizational skills. How can firms find, train, and keep these “T-shaped” professionals happy and productive? How can T-shaped lawyers find success in law firms, or beyond? [This episode was published

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1.10.1 Richard Hsu, senior legal recruiter, on...

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2024/07/01

Lisa Leong and her business partner, Tristan Forrester, escape Melbourne and travel to San Francisco, to record this special Future Law Podcast bonus episode. They track down Richard Hsu – the Managing Director of the Partner Practice Group of recruitment firm Major Lindsey & Africa. Richard is the host and producer of anABA awardwinning podcastHsuUntied – and author of the LMA award winning blogHsuTube. Oh, and he was a lawyer! (Amongst other legal roles, he was an IP partner at Shearman &

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1.10.2 Simon Quirk on innovation in law firms and...

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2024/07/01

Dean Dan chats with his friend Simon Quirk, recovering lawyer, professional services consultant, and long-time serial entrepreneur. The discussion ranges over the nature of legal practice, how to do innovation in law firms, and what we should think about the new point solutions in legal tech and regtech. [This episode was published originally on September 15, 2019.]

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1.10.3 Lisa Damon and Stephen Poor from Seyfarth Shaw

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2024/07/01

Lisa Damon and Stephen Poor, innovators and leaders at the global law firm Seyfarth Shaw, talk with Mike Madison and Dean Dan Hunter about developing Seyfarth Lean, the name the firm gives to its widely-recognized applied innovation strategies: data-driven process improvements, project management techniques, and legal technology R&D that have changed the firm’s DNA. [This episode was published originally on September 22, 2019.]

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1.9.0 The Future of Legal Education in the US

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2024/06/24

US law schools today face a double shot of post-2008 challenges. They face changing demand for legal services and legal education, plus changing demographics of prospective students. Law faculty are just now starting to accept that those factors point to large scale disruption of the traditional law school. Lisa, Dan, and Mike take an inventory of how US law schools got where they are, look at the likely shape of change to come, and – as always – deliver some practical take-aways. [This episode was

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1.9.1 Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School

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2024/06/24

Professor Mark Tushnet of Harvard Law School is our guest. Professor Tushnet talks with Dan Hunter about the changes that he’s seen in US legal education over his long and illustrious career, and offers some suggestions regarding how US law schools need to change to respond to the challenges ahead. [This episode was published originally on August 4, 2019.]

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1.9.3 Deborah Merritt, Professor at the Ohio State...

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2024/06/24

Professor Deborah Merritt of the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University talks with Dan Hunter and Mike Madison about the sources of critical challenge in US law schools today and describes paths to re-invention, including a new focus on clients, for herself, for current students, and for law faculties. [This episode was published originally on August 18, 2019.]

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1.9.2 Michele Pistone, Villanova Law School

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2024/06/24

Professor Michele Pistone from the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University in Philadelphia talks with Dan Hunter and Mike Madison about disruption in law practice and legal education, about change management in higher education, and about working across the university to build new, cross-disciplinary training for law. [This episode was published originally on August 11, 2019.]

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1.7.1 Ray Worthy Campbell, Peking University in Shenzhen

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2024/06/17

Dean Dan talks with Professor Ray Campbell, from Peking University-School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China. Before becoming a law professor, Ray clerked for U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court, and was a partner in the multinational law firms of Kirkland & Ellis and Jenner & Block. Listen to his fascinating take on the future of law and the future of legal education in a globalised world. [This episode was published originally on June 14, 2019.]

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1.8.1 Dean Gordon Smith, BYU Law School

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2024/06/17

Dan and Mike talk with Gordon Smith, Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU) about emerging challenges and opportunities for US law schools. Gordon’s research and teaching background is in business law and entrepreneurship. In this interview, he talks about bringing his expertise to bear on innovation and entrepreneurship inside a law school. [This episode was published originally on July 14, 2019.]

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1.7.0 The End of Law Schools

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2024/06/17

Dean Dan and Mike Madison talk about whether the future has caught up with law schools. They catch up with Professor Ray Campbell, from Peking University-School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, who suggests that the future of legal education doesn’t look like the way that we’ve always done things. [This episode was published originally on May 31, 2019.]

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1.8.0 Innovation on the Cheap

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2024/06/17

Lisa Leong, Dean Dan, and Mike Madison take a tour through strategies for initiating innovation and change, for people who don’t have “innovating” in their professional portfolios – and who may not have budgets. They have case studies to share, from their own experiences in law firms, companies, and law schools. Anyone can put themselves in a position to innovate. Here’s how to get started. [This episode was published originally on June 30, 2019.]

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00:34:38

1.6.1 Professor Dan Klein aka Dan the Improv Man

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2024/06/10

Lisa Leong and her business partner Tristan Forrester spent some time hanging out with the delightful Professor Dan Klein from Stanford University. In this full interview, you will learn: – how to think like an Improviser and why it is important for cultivating an innovation mindset– how improv can encourage lawyer creativity– a few simple improv games like sound ball, and word-at-a-time proverb. [This episode was published originally on May 14, 2019.]

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1.6.0 How Improv Unlocks Innovation

The Future Law Podcast ·

2024/06/10

Lisa Leong introduces us to her friend Professor Dan Klein from Stanford University aka “Dan the Improv Man”. In this episode our three co-hosts, Dean Dan, Lethal Lisa and Most Interesting Mike explore how improvisation exercises can help lawyers develop an innovation mindset. [This episode was published originally on April 30, 2019.]

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00:33:37

1.5.1 Mick Sheehy, PWC Partner

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2024/06/10

Mick Sheehy is a partner at PWC and was formerly a general council at Telstra. He is the founder of CLOC in Australia and joins Dan Hunter to talk about legal ops, managed services, and why law firms should be worried about how the Big 4 are moving into NewLaw. [This episode was published originally on April 14, 2019.]

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