legal education

Discover the science behind happiness, the power of self-compassion, and the keys to unlocking your true potential.

This week we're super excited to be chatting Jordana Confino, who has made a significant impact in the fields of law, psychology, and education. 

Her journey from a psychology major to a high-achieving lawyer and ultimately, a passionate advocate for personal well-being and happiness is truly inspiring.

She played a pivotal role in establishing a comprehensive program focusing on professional identity formation and well-being, a trailblazing endeavor that is reshaping legal education.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧?
You can catch Rob and Jordana Confino talking about:

• Her unique course on positive lawyering, grounded in the science of positive psychology.
• Delving into the implication of human motivation theory for lawyers and professionals.
• Jordana's science-backed strategies for reinventing your mindset, self-compassion, and aligning your life with your core values.

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Curious about the evolving landscape of legal education and qualification?

This week we're super excited to be chatting with Lucie Allen, Managing Director at BARBRI Global, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in commercial roles spanning various types of business. Lucie thrives on new challenges, driving change and delivering results by developing high-performing teams and focusing on the customer. 

Lucie is passionate about diversity and inclusion advancement in the workplace as well as supporting people with personal development and career goals to achieve their potential. 

Lucie Allen's remarkable accomplishments and deep insights make this episode an invaluable resource for aspiring solicitors, legal enthusiasts, and anyone intrigued by the dynamic evolution of legal education and qualification.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧?

You can catch Rob and Lucie Allen talking about:

• Her remarkable career journey and achievements.
• The transformative impact of the SQE on the legal profession.
• BarBri's cutting-edge approach to SQE preparation.
• The role of diversity and representation in reshaping the legal industry.
• Lucie's insights into the groundbreaking BARBRI Bridges initiative.
• Expert advice on excelling in the SQE exams and beyond.

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Join Hyatt for a special fireside chat with Josh Porter, Esq., the former Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Alabama Law School, about the future of affirmative action in the wake of the Supreme Court's finding the admission policies of Harvard and UNC at Chapel Hill unconstitutional. 

Join Hyatt for a special episode as he provides a primer on the Supreme Court's decision banning race conscious affirmative action in higher education.

This month's guest is the wonderful Darielle Teitelbaum of AWE Legal and AWE Contracts. Listen in as Darielle shares some tips and education on how to approach the legal considerations of your social enterprise, what to consider when choosing the right lawyer for you, and why we fangirl for contracts. 

Resources

• Social Enterprise Institute free SE101 course
• Social Enterprise Institute free Social Finance 101 course
• Pillar's Shift to the Middle model
• AWE Legal
• AWE Contracts
• Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub - Incorporation Guide
• Nonprofit Law for Unincorporated Groups Webinar
• Nonprofit Law Ontario
• BDC Guide to Employees and Independent Contractors
• AWE Legal podcasts
• GoodLawyer Resource Hub
• B&I Legal free resources
• A Few Fun Moves

Music
Intro and  background music written and performed by the wonderful Jessica O'Neil. 
Find her as Yessica Woahneil on music-streaming platforms. 

Sponsors
This podcast is made possible in-part through the generous in-kind sponsorship of Rogers TV London and financial contributions of Libro Credit Union. 

“No longer is justice sought, it is made.”

Justice is being made in India, outside of formal institutions such as courts and police, through community driven initiatives for justice delivery. With the advent of alternative forms of dispute resolution, young innovators are building creative tools using technology for making the experience of justice trustworthy and seamless. They complement the judicial system of justice administration.

In this episode, Sowmya Nandan and Shrikrishna Upadhyaya host Supriya Sankaran, co-founder of Agami India, engage in a wide-ranging conversation on justice-makers, legal-tech start-ups, digital transformation in courts, and legal education in India, and how these different threads are converging towards reimagining justice for Indians.

Also check out:

1. Reimagining justice delivery in India ft. SAMA featuring Pranjal Srivastava and Akshetha Ashok

2. Civic Technology featuring Antara Vasudev

Check out Takshashila’s courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/

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Today  we are joined by Professor Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff,  a professor of Legal writing at ASU's Sandra Day O'Conor College of Law  as she shares her passion for Legal education with us.  She shares not only her passion for Legal education, but also offers advice and paths to mentorship for those who want to enter the field.   


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About the Guest:

Prof. (Dr.) Dalwai specializes in gender, sexuality, and law. Her Ph.D. thesis analyses the legal ban on dancing in the bars of Mumbai. In this work, she focuses on sexuality and law during globalisation in India with a specific reference to the caste capital of hereditary dancers. She has published in international journals and offered conference papers in many international conferences. Ms. Dalwai has worked as a lawyer with human rights organizations in Mumbai as well as health NGOs in rural Maharashtra. She envisioned and heads Development and Human Rights Institute (www.dhri.org ) a human rights education and exposure programme for students of western universities.

This series is hosted by Muda Tariq, the Research Associate at Belongg. Muda graduated with a Bachelor's in Political Science, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding from Lady Shri Ram College for Women. She is passionate about working on the intersections of gender, human rights, and conflict. She is also a fellow at the LedBy Foundation and the EU-funded ALLY Project.

You can also listen to this podcast and more conversations on intersectional inclusion, by downloading Belongg’s app UnOther, available on the Apple and Google app stores. To connect with intersectional experts for guest lectures or consultations, check out Belongg Circle, a platform that makes it easy for a range of organizations and individuals to integrate intersectionality in their work.

Firm clients are focusing on diversity internally and with their outside counsel.  While we all generally know what ‘diversity’ means, we all may not have diligently considered what it takes to create diversity in a law firm, worked to intentionally and meaningfully advance diversity in our law firms, and/or identified innovative ways to foster inclusion in law firms that support retaining diverse talent.  In this episode of Diversity Ever After, host Kennard Davis reflects on these questions by obtaining the perspective of three special guests:  Marcus Brown, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Entergy Corporation, Chris Walker, Associate General Counsel at Jacobs Engineering Group, and Danielle Agee, Market General Counsel for the Southcentral Market at Verizon.  Join us for an engaging discussion on the meaning of diversity, how law firm clients are also working internally to create more diverse and inclusive teams, actionable ways to facilitate purposeful development of minority attorneys who work in law firms, and methods for holding firms accountable to the diversity requirements set by their clients. 

Our Host this Week:
Kennard Davis, Associate at Baker Donelson

Special Guest Hosts:
Marcus Brown, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Entergy Corporation 
Chris Walker, Associate General Counsel at Jacobs Engineering Group
Danielle Agee, Market General Counsel for the Southcentral Market at Verizon

Special Thanks to:
John Page, SVP, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer and Chief Legal Officer at Golden State Foods
Dana M. Douglas, United State Magistrate Judge at United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
Nakimuli Davis-Primer, Shareholder at Baker Donelson
Christopher Joseph, Associate Attorney at D'Arcy Vicknair, LLC
Karl Connor, Chief Change Agent

In this episode of Legally Literate we talk about access to legal education and how small business owners can improve their legal literacy.

Chris and Alison speak with Professor Carla Laroche, who developed and directs the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic at W&L Law.  Professor Laroche has her AB from Princeton, her MPP from Harvard, and her JD from Columbia.  She previously was a clinical professor at Florida State University College of Law, where she founded and directed the Gender and Family Justice Clinic.  They discuss the work of her clinics, how she prepares students for what they will encounter in practice, and traumatic experiences that she has faced in her own life and practice.

We discuss an article by Maryam Ahranjani, “Toughen Up, Buttercup” versus #TimesUp: Initial Findings of the ABA Women in Criminal Justice Task Force, 25 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 99 (2020), https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1835&context=law_facultyscholarship

Also, this article about "imposter syndrome,"

And here's some extra reading recommended by Prof. Laroche on the language of social justice:
-An Open Letter to Our Friends on the Question of Language https://cmjcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CNUS-AppropriateLanguage.pdf 

- Social Justice Phrase Guide https://www.opportunityagenda.org/sites/default/files/2017-03/Social%20Justice%20Phrase%20Guide.pdf

We discuss the adultification of Black girls and this is a 2017 study on that:  Girlhood Interrupted:  The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood.

September 30th is Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, will you be a witness? 

Resources mentioned during the show and further reading:

Learn more about Justice Harry S. LaForme here and here. 

https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1695/index.do

https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/8000/index.do

https://www.criaw-icref.ca/images/userfiles/files/P4W_BN_IncarcerationRacializedWomen_Accessible.pdf

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html

http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/mrgnlzd/index-en.aspx

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/oip-cjs/p3.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/22/one-third-canada-prisoners-indigenous-report

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-overrepresentation-prison-oci-statement-1.5434712

http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2020/01/number-of-incarcerated-indigenous-women-at-new-high/

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/indigenous-incarceration-rate-a-travesty-canadas-prison-watchdog-says/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-bill-c-22-is-inadequate-for-the-task-of-addressing-injustice-in/

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/senator-says-new-liberal-sentencing-bill-needs-to-do-more-to-help-indigenous-women-offenders/

https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/pate-kim/interventions/545733/33

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/10/27/senator-tries-again-to-get-ottawa-to-tackle-mandatory-minimum-sentences-and-better-serve-indigenous-and-black-people.html

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/january-2020/despite-soaring-indigenous-incarceration-minimum-sentencing-persists/

http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter4.html#5

https://www.mcgill.ca/humanrights/files/humanrights/ihri_wps_v5_n13_philpott.pdf

Learn more about Dr. Napoleon here

Joseph Arvay Legacy Fund Information:

https://www.uvic.ca/law/home/news/current/joseph-arvay-legacy-fund.php

Other resources mentioned during the show and further reading:

https://adric.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Napoleon-Legal-Pluralism-published-version-2019-11.pdf

https://www.uvic.ca/law/admissions/jidadmissions/index.php

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-bill-c-22-is-inadequate-for-the-task-of-addressing-injustice-in/

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/senator-says-new-liberal-sentencing-bill-needs-to-do-more-to-help-indigenous-women-offenders/

https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/pate-kim/interventions/545733/33

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/10/27/senator-tries-again-to-get-ottawa-to-tackle-mandatory-minimum-sentences-and-better-serve-indigenous-and-black-people.html

This episode discusses the psychological harm lawyers may experience as a result of doing what they love to do: advocacy. This episode references working with abuse survivors, suicide, mental health, vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience. 

Guest Betsy Miller, Dartmouth '96, left college directly for law school but had this sinking feeling she probably should have been a therapist. What she found, though, was that it just meant that she was drawn always to the human elements of the law. After years of varied work in the legal field—from accomplished litigator to law school instructor—she started asking where others in the legal profession were going to get the leadership lessons they needed to succeed and not just the “vocational training common to the field.

Having returned to school herself to delve into organizational development, change management, and leadership development, she now is on a mission to make an impact on the law both in practice and in the educational setting so that a new crop of lawyers—including women and other underrepresented groups—have the skills that they and their organizations need to excel in a field that relies solely on human talent and team-based work.

In this episode, find out from Betsy how sometimes you need to step up an answer your own questions in order to make a real impact …on ROADS TAKEN...with Leslie Jennings Rowley.

About This Episode's Guest

Betsy Miller is Partner at Cohen Milstein and is co-chair of the firm’s public client practice group. In her work, she represents state Attorneys General in civil investigations and litigation in areas that protect government interests and vulnerable communities, mainly from corporate abuse. When she’s not using her voice for your rights, she can be found using her voice to get you pumped as a fitness instructor. 

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com

Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com

Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings Rowley

Music: Brian Burrows

Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

We spoke with Dr. Kara Mitchelmore, CEO of the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED), about the newly launched Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP), using online learning to educate law school graduates, and getting the next generation of lawyers ready for legal practice.

David Schnurman is the CEO of Lawline, the leading provider of online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) in the US.

The company recently celebrated serving over 130,000 attorneys with over 3,000,000 courses completed.  David is also the past president of Entrepreneurs Organization New York.

David is the author of the book “The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be More Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success." This book shares a very simple formula to consistently break through your walls and fast forward your entrepreneurial success and happiness.

He recently gave a TEDxYouth talk to high school students to inspire them to reach their full potential in life.David is a frequent speaker to business organizations, colleges, and high schools on topics ranging from entrepreneurship, mindset, leadership, and culture, and has published articles on these topics in Forbes.

His success has been recognized by his peers in entrepreneurship and the legal industry, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur.com, Crain’s NY, the New York Post, and Law.com

Lastly, David has a love for adventure and discovery. He has run several marathons. He has hiked the mountains of Patagonia, paraglided in the Colorado mountains, gone skydiving, and taken flying lessons. He currently lives in Spain with his wife Kelli and three beautiful children.

We discuss:

• Life under quarantine in Spain
• Rating yourself as a way of living up to the life design you've created
• Finding a balance between routine and spontaneity
• The attention span of parenting: bailing vs digging in
• The joy of creativity, our own and our children's
• Living life with no regrets
• Lessons learned in building a successful business and how Covid-19 has changed the culture
• Being a self-help addict and the moment he decided to become an entrepreneur
• Navigating his relationship with his father and knowing his own mind
• What you do when you hit a wall
• Perfect = the enemy of good enough

You can find out more about David at https://www.ffwdmindset.com and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidschnurman/

Join us in our community at:  www.facebook.com/groups/heartofdad and apply to be on the podcast here: www.heartofdad.com/contact

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.

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