Note, I agree with Jae: "Big business and their legal counsel have the opportunity to steer capitalism to a gentler and fairer recovery, but the clock is ticking.
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Yes, I'm laser focused on how lawyers lead—how we *learn* to lead—as I prep to teach just this to @vanderbiltlaw students, and . . .
As I read @jaesunum's post on @Legal_Ev, all I can think: we are failing to train lawyers to make these important moral (yes, moral) decisions.👇
Note, I agree with Jae: "Big business and their legal counsel have the opportunity to steer capitalism to a gentler and fairer recovery, but the clock is ticking.
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Both the opportunity and obligation (yes, I believe it is an obligation) we in law face are enormous.
And,
To wit: we do not train new lawyers for this world. We continue to train them primarily for the 2nd industrial revolution, which ended 100+ years ago.
"The intrinsic tension between BigLaw’s growth imperative
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Are we asking law students these questions?
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Are we incentivizing or prioritizing behavior and choices in legal professionals responsive to these questions?
Are we giving law students and lawyers tools to be contributors to solutions that address these challenges?
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I submit that, for the most part, we are not.
In fact, I observe we teach law students things that lead them in the opposite direction. And the training and incentives they encounter in corporate law firms?
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our movement in the direction Jae urges—and I believe our world demands.
We train lawyers with a very, very narrow view of their role in society. And then we impart great power (and obligation).
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For decades, the late Deborah Rhode asked all of us to acknowledge and address
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AND, we do very little (if anything) to prepare them for THIS. For leadership. For MORAL leadership. See "What Lawyers Lack: Leadership" https://t.co/OpixXwneqx.
What is the inflection point 👇
How bad does it really need to get?
I fear our proclivities (risk averse, skeptical, precedent-driven vs. forward-thinking) continue to constrain our evolution in ways that have dire consequences not only on the legal profession,
:dow 👇
As battles wage over the regulatory structure of the legal profession, a truth remains: law is the operating system of human society.
And, even when we allow and empower others to fulfill meaningful, necessary roles in this system,
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The choices we make now — about how we (self)regulate, about how we (self)educate, about how we choose to fulfill our duties and obligations — have consequences so far beyond our current purview
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