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Will legal ed and the practice of law pivot to meet the #neweconomy & #futureofwork?

Posted on by TME in Article, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Digital, entertainment law, Entrepreneurship, Information technology, innovation, Intellectual Property, Internet, Law Practice, law school, law student, publishing law, Smart Contracts, Startups, Trademark

“Lawyers aren’t going away. But the way we work is changing.”

Today’s client and, more importantly tomorrow’s client, demands that lawyers keep pace with the #futureofwork in the #neweconomy. Here’s where I think we are and where we HAVE to go.

How do you foresee this directly impacting the legal industry?

Asked by interviewer Adam Keirstead

Dean Evans

Well, there’s a really interesting move in the legal industry to prepare lawyers to have conversations with technologists in the IT department and those who are coding to leverage the existing master contracts that we have in order to figure out ways that we can automate certain functions.

Essentially, there are master agreements underneath that lawyers do, and there’s coding the coders and IT specialists do. They need to be able to talk to each other. This is an area that’s ripe for innovation on the law side.

Lawyers won’t go away, but the way that lawyers are interacting with business people, and in terms of our advice and how we work with them is going to certainly change!

Read the full transcript and listen to the original podcast with Dean Tonya M. Evans here.

tune into the Tech Intersect Podcast with Tonya M. Evans

Tech Intersect #57: Ping The Prof #1-Digital Dollars, Dollar Cost Averaging, Dips & Tether's NYAG Deal – Tech Intersect™ with Tonya M. Evans

In this episode of Tech Intersect, I introduce a new segment, Ping the Prof where I answer your questions, talk hot topics and current events and give you some action items to listen, learn and leverage your way into shining success in the future of money, work and entrepreneurship. This episode introduces "DCA meets BTD" (how dollar-cost averaging + a regular commitment to buying when price dips occur) can have a profound impact on those who HODL (aka hold) (buy and hold cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin). I also talk about Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's recent comments about a US digital dollar and Tether/Bitfinex's 18.5M settlement with NYAG Leticia James.I also give a shoutout to Black Bitcoin Billionaires creators Isaiah "Bitcoin Zay" Jackson and Lamar Wilson and MLB player-turned-artist Micah Johnson's epic NFT crypto art auction for his "Aku" creations. SPONSORED BY ADVANTAGE EVANS™ ACADEMY There’s a more effective and efficient way to reach your leading-edge learning and earning goals, to put you ahead of the stiff competition to create opportunity and generational wealth in this fast-paced, tech-driven economy. You need skills. Credentials. An advantage. And I can help! I empower underestimated life-long learners traditionally locked out of tech and finance to take control of their financial futures and participate in the new digital cash economy safely, legally and confidently in a welcoming space so they can stay ahead of the curve and create autonomy, opportunity and generational wealth in the fast-paced, tech-driven world. Ready for your advantage? Learn more about my From Cash to Crypto™ course at AdvantageEvans.com and register for a free masterclass at FromCashtoCrypto.com. Contact:Questions and requests: hello@techintersectpodcast.com Follow: Twitter @AtTechIntersect Instagram @TechIntersect Web: http://www.TechIntersectPodcast.com  Get VIP Access to Info + More: http://eepurl.com/gKqDyP  Rapternal Music (Regulate and The Rabbit Hole) by Notty Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Produced by Tonya M. Evans for FYOS Entertainment, LLC, and Stephanie Renee for Soul Sanctuary, Inc.Support the show (https://tinyurl.com/techintersectvip)
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Copyright & Licensing Job Opps: Have One? Need One?

Posted on by TME in Copyright, Job Search, Law Practice, law student

As reported by CopyrightLaws.com:

JOBS WITH COPYRIGHT & LICENSING FUNCTIONS – Occasionally organizations with positions for lawyers and non-lawyers (e.g., librarians, editors) email Copyrightlaws.com with openings. These openings will now be available via Twitter @Copyrightlaws. Please keep sending those positions so we can share them with job seekers. Email contact@copyrightlaws.com.

Professor Evans Moderates Cutting-Edge Panel on Innovation in Teaching & Practice

Posted on by TME in Event

Professor Tonya Evans (Widener University School of Law – Harrisburg, PA) will serve as panel moderator of the Technological Innovation in Practice and Education at the 2012 Association of American Law Schools annual meeting. This panel will expose the audience to the technological realities of modern practice, and generate discussion about how the academy might respond in our teaching and scholarship to address advances in technology.

The discussion will include an update by Professor Andrew Perelmen about the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20’s work on lawyer regulation and technology, as well as insights from Stephanie Kimbro, a legal practitioner who conducts her entire law practice virtually and Professor Paula Schaefer who has designed an innovative e-discovery course.

More information about the panelists >> Ms. Stephanie Kimbro, Kimbro Legal Services, Andrew M. Perlman, Suffolk University Law School and Paula Schaefer, University of Tennessee College of Law.