New book looks at innovative paths to success in profession of law
In today's legal marketplace, clients are demanding services that require a new skill set and a new mindset from their lawyers, who need to be more focused on collaboration and innovation to create more effective and long lasting client relationships.
In new release "Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law," University of Miami Law Professor Michele DeStefano explains the trifecta for success in a changed legal landscape: creativity, collaboration and innovation.
Based, in part, on over 100 interviews of General Counsels of large, international corporations, managing partners and heads of innovation at law firms around the world, Michele explores the changing legal marketplace, the new expectations of lawyers, and the gaps that exist in skills, mindset, and behaviors. She then discusses how law firm leaders can help lawyers meet these new expectations and fill in the gaps.
With helpful case studies and explanations, as well as concrete directions, Legal Upheaval makes innovation accessible. Each chapter concludes with points of reflection designed to help the reader determine what are the best approaches for their team, department or firm to become more collaborative and innovative.
Author Michele DeStefano is guest faculty in Harvard Law School's Executive Education and is the founder of LawWithoutWalls, a multi-disciplinary, international think-tank of more than 1,000 lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and law and business students that collaborate to solve problems and create innovations at the intersection of law, business, and technology.
She is also the co-founder and co-editor of the Compliance Elliance Journal, an open access e-journal that publishes engaging authors' works about cutting-edge issues in compliance and ethics.
Published: Fri, Aug 24, 2018
