Future Ed 3 – Conference Program

Friday, April 15

12:00 – 12:30 p.m. Registration and Welcome

12:30 – 1:00 p.m. There is No "U.S. News" in "Team"

• Elizabeth Chambliss, New York Law School

1:00 – 5:45 p.m. Angel Fund Pitches

Everyone at the conference gets $1 million in virtual currency and decides whom to back and how much. Results will be announced at the close of the conference on Saturday. The question for each proposal/team is where the big law school team should invest its resources (including faculty and student time). The audience will fill in a paper form to allocate among projects. Each "pitch" gets 7 minutes, plus 3 minutes each to respond to in-group competitors, followed by comments and questions from the audience (10-15 minutes). Below are the groupings and schedule for presentation.

All proposals are posted at http://www.nyls.edu/futureed (click “proposals” tab at bottom right).

1:00 p.m. Group 1 (7-7-3-3-10)

• Predictors for Successful Lawyering: Rethinking Law School Admissions (David Oppenheimer & Kristen Holmquist)
• Learning Outcomes, Practicing Lawyers, and the Berkeley Effective Lawyering Predictors (Lori Shaw, Henry C. ("Corky") Strickland, & Howard P. Walthall, Sr.)

1:30 p.m. Group 2 (7-7-7-3-3-3-15)

• A Transactional Skills Curriculum for a New Century: The Need to Incorporate Practical Business and Transactional Skills Training into the Curricula of America's Law Schools (Tina L. Stark & Eric C. Chaffee)
• Anatomy of a Controversy: The Study of a Major Lawsuit from Complaint to Resolution (Dennis Greene)
• Washington & Lee's Experiential Third Year: Description and Implementation (James Moliterno)

2:15 p.m. Group 3 (7-7-3-3-10)

• Training New Lawyers: Post-Graduate Partnerships between Law Schools and The Legal Profession (Rachel Littman & Christine Mooney)
• "Cradle to Grave" Legal Professional Development (David Wilkins, Scott Westfahl & Cory Way)

2:45 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Group 4 (7-7-7-3-3-3-15)

• Law Without Walls: Innovating Legal Education and Practice (Michele DeStefano Beardslee & Michael Bossone)
• Knowledge Management in Legal Practice—Virtual Externship (Tanina Rostain, David R. Johnson & Paul Lippe)
• Assessing Distance Learning Methods and Success in the Law School Setting (Rebecca Purdom & Larry Farmer)

3:45 p.m. Group 5 (7-7-7-3-3-3-15)

• Apps for Justice: Learning Law by Creating Software (Ron Staudt & Marc Lauritsen)
• Standardized Clients and SIMPLE (SIMulated Professional Learning Environment): Learning Professionalism through Simulated Practice (Karen Barton, John Garvey & Paul Maharg)
• Seriously Gamifying Legal Learning (David R. Johnson & Tanina Rostain)

4:30 p.m. Break

4:45 p.m. Audience Comments and Discussion (60)

• Moderator: Elizabeth Chambliss, New York Law School

6:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner (Golden Unicorn, Chinatown)

Saturday, April 16

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (breakout rooms available)

9:00 a.m. Investment Forms Due

9:00 a.m. Cost, Value, and Change – Imagining our Future

• Richard Matasar, Dean, New York Law School

9:30 a.m. Leveraging Technology

• Burck Smith, CEO, Straighterline
• David Thomson, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
• Moderator: Barry Currier, Dean Emeritus, Concord Law School

10:30 a.m. Leveraging the Tenured Faculty Role

• David Yellen, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Hofstra University School of Law
• Moderator: Gary Tamsitt, Australian National University College of Law

11:30 a.m. Break

11:45 a.m. Lessons from Engineering

• Richard Miller, President, Olin College of Engineering
• Moderator: Carole Silver, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

12:30 – 2 p.m. Lunch and Keynote: Everything Will Change: Even Law School

• James H. Shelton III, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education

2:00 p.m. Announcement of Virtual Investment Winners

2:30 p.m. Conference Close

 

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