Penn Carey Law Future of the Profession Initiative

There are just 3 days left to secure your spot for this year's conference - Law 2030: Designing the Future of Law!

Don't miss out on the legal conference of the year - register today!
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Registration for this year's Law 2030 conference is closing soon! This 2-day, online and in-person conference, taking place November 2-3, 2022 at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, brings together thought leaders from across the legal profession for a global conversation about designing the future of law.

Join us as we explore how Design Thinking can help lawyers transform the legal profession. Register today!

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Law 2030: Designing the Future of Law, will bring together a dynamic group of innovators, experts, and thought leaders committed to redefining the legal profession. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to attend interactive sessions including:

- A Master Class in Design: Faculty from Penn’s Weitzman School of Design, School of Nursing, and Penn Carey Law will lead an engaging and interactive workshop on how to use design thinking to ideate novel solutions for reimagining the future of legal work environments.
- Emerging Social Justice Roles for Corporate Leaders: a discussion about corporate social responsibility & environmental, social, governance for firms, legal departments and corporations.
- A Fresh Conversation About DE&I: how can legal design better DE&I roles and organizational structures that actually promote inclusion?
- How Litigation Finance Is Redefining What is Possible: A conversation among private-sector and public-interest litigation financing leaders moderated by Penn Carey Law Professor Tom Baker.

Check out the full conference agenda by clicking the link below!
https://www.law2030.org/

Join us November 3-4, 2022 at the Fillmore Philadelphia in Fishtown for this years Law 2030 Conference: Designing the Future of Law. Hear from leaders, innovators, & courageous trailblazers, including:

- Theodore R***r, Penn Carey Law Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
- Rohan Pavuluri, Co-Founder, Upsolve
- Hedieh Fakhriyazdi, Director, Social Responsibility and Weil Foundation, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- Brad Karp, Chairperson, Paul Weiss
- Gina Passarella, Editor-in-Chief, Global Legal Brands, ALM Media LLC

Check out our full list of speakers by clicking the link below!

FPI’s new strategic advisor, the Honorable Bridget McCormack, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, highlights what makes this year’s Law 2030 conference so special. The conference will be a two-day living display of what we are thinking about and working on each day at FPI, including questions like:

- How can we bring an interdisciplinary approach to tackling the problems in the legal profession?
- How can we be intentional about attorney health and well-being, diversity, equity and inclusion?
- What must change to address the growing access to justice gap?
- What can we learn from experts in Business, Design, Nursing and other disciplines?

Read more by clicking the link below!
law.upenn.edu/live/news/15191-fpis-new-strategic-advisor-bridget-mccormack

Our Law 2030 Conference brings together leaders from across the legal profession for an interactive and educational discussion on using human-centered design to reimagine the legal workplace.

Law 2030: Designing the Future of Law will be held online and in-person at the spectacular Fillmore Philadelphia in Fishtown, on November 3-4, 2022.

Register now to join us!

https://www.law2030.org/

During quarantine, lawyers faced increased workloads that resulted in high levels of burnout which led to a portion of lawyers leaving their practices or looking for a change in the industry. To address this need, The National Law Review suggests a focus on collaboration technology to lessen pressure on lawyers and automate the monotonous parts of their job.

Read the full article in the link below.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/could-collaboration-technology-help-solve-legal-talent-war

Secondments solve a corporate law department’s temporary need for high-quality counsel to alleviate leaves of absence or significant increases in legal work. In her article "Reimagining the Secondment Experience" Penn Law alumni Kate Driscoll L'11 discusses her experience as a secondee and how corporate legal departments and law firms can deploy secondments more strategically.

Read more in the article linked below.
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/15094-reimagining-the-secondment-experience

In a recent Wharton study, researchers studied the correlation between factory turnover rate and product failure. They found that replacing a worker with someone with an identical skill set wasn't sufficient and led to more product failures. In the legal industry, turnover can be detrimental to company structure and output. Wharton Professor Ken Moon emphasizes that managers need to address the root of why employees leave, and make changes to improve retention in order to succeed.

Read the full article in the link below.
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-employee-turnover-costs-more-than-you-think/

In the debate between in-person and remote work, many law firms have opted to return to the office. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, however, announced that partners and staff could choose to work from home permanently. In the Legal Rebels Podcast, founding partner and chairman John B. Quinn outlines why they adopted this policy and what benefits and challenges it will bring.

Listen to the episode in the link below.
https://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/rebels-podcast-episode-079