1. The MIT School of Law
A Perspective on Legal Education in the 21st Century
Daniel Martin Katz
Illinois Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Law

3. Despite some of the
blustery rhetoric

4. the market(s) for legal
services is not going away

5. that said -
the Market(s) for Legal
Services is Changing

6. and in turn so is the
market for legal education ...

8. So the proper question
we should be asking ...

9. How Do We Prepare
Our Students to
Survive (Thrive) in the
emerging ordering?

10. in my view, we just need to

11. Provide them with skills that
make them undeniable

12. to do so
we must imagine and
develop a new type
of legal education...

13. Liberal Arts Legal .Edu

14. Liberal Arts Legal .Edu
Polytechnic Legal .Edu

16. Polytechnic Legal.edu
is arguably well configured
to the various existing
faces of innovation in legal

17. 3 faces of innovation in legal

18. (1) lawyers for innovators / entrepreneurs

19. (1) lawyers for innovators / entrepreneurs
what most lawyers and law schools call “Law+Entrepreneurship"

20. (2) lawyers as innovators - substance /doctrine

21. poison pill - “the most important innovation in corporate law
since Samuel Calvin Tate Dodd invented the trust
for John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil in 1879”
(2) lawyers as innovators - substance /doctrine

22. emerging areas - 3D Printing, Driverless Cars, Augmented Reality,
Data Breach, Big Data+Privacy, etc.
Drones, Internet of Things, CyberSecurity,
(2) lawyers as innovators - substance /doctrine

23. (3) lawyers as innovators - business/process
innovation directed toward transforming the practice of law

24. (3) lawyers as innovators - business/process
innovation directed toward cultivating new markets for law

26. Some Major Trends
in the Legal
Services
Market

28. Trend 1:
General Counsel as
Legal Supply Chain
Manager

29. What is one major historic
barrier to legal innovation?

30. Client Sophistication

31. The Sophisticated
General Counsel

32. Although many of pieces
were already in place ...

33. The Financial Crisis Placed
Significant Pressure on GC’s

34. To Control Their Legal Spend

35. Legal was brought
in line with
the Other C Level
Officers/Divisions

36. “I am not running your
training program ...”

37. (i.e. Don’t Put
1st and 2nd Year
Associates
on our work)

38. “If you want our work -
you are going to work
with other providers”

39. The General Counsel
as Legal Supply Chain Manager

40. Blended
Teams
of
Providers
Law Firm
+
E-Discovery Firm
+
Legal Process Outsourcing
+
Law Division Insourcing
+
Software/Analytics Firm

41. Legal Supply
Chain Mgmt.
Data and Logistics =
General Counsels
as the Maestros

42. Client Sophistication is
Critical to this Story ...

43. Client Sophistication
has reset historic
relationships ...

44. and is a necessary
precondition for legal
entrepreneurs

46. Trend 2:
The Rise of
Quantitative
Legal
Prediction

47. Quantitative
Legal
Prediction

48. Data
Driven
Law
Practice

49. It Has Already Begun ...

50. implication is that
every organization
needs a data strategy

51. 2011
The Age of
Quantitative Legal Prediction

52. 2011
The Age of
Quantitative Legal Prediction

53. 2011
The Age of
Quantitative Legal Prediction

54. 2012
The Age of
Quantitative Legal Prediction

55. 2013
The Age of
Quantitative Legal Prediction

56. Quantitative Legal Prediction
- or -
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start
Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the
Legal Services Industry
Daniel Martin Katz
Assistant Professor of Law
Michigan State University
2013

57. 2013
The Age of
Quantitative Legal Prediction

58. 2013

59. 2013

60. 2013

61. 2013

62. 2014

63. 2014

64. 2014

65. 2014

66. Some Commercial Examples

68. Predictive
Coding
in
E-Discovery

71. https://lexmachina.com/

72. “The software
identifies standard
and terms in
contracts, and its
benchmarking
tools show
lawyers how their
current document
compares to the
standard.”

74. http://www.noticeandcomment.com/

77. General Counsels as Legal
Procurement Specialists
TyMetrix -
Using $50 billion+ in Legal
Spend Data to Help GC’s
Look for Arbitrage
Opportunities, Value
Propositions in Hiring Law
Firms
Legal Procurement
(High End of Market)

79. experts, crowds, algorithms
3 known ways to forecast

80. For most problems ...
ensembles of these streams
outperform any single stream

81. data driven law practice

82. This is *not*
the end of lawyers

83. Instead the
pseudocode for our times ...

85. Humans
+
Machines

86. Humans
+
Machines
>

87. Humans
+
Machines
Humans
or
Machines
>

89. How to get students trained
for data driven law practice

90. Quantitative Methods for Lawyers
Professor Daniel Martin Katz

91. Legal Analytics
Professor Daniel Martin Katz
Professor Michael J Bommarito II

93. Trend 3:
Retail Legal Services
(US + UK)

94. 70%+ of US does not
have a lawyer ...

95. architecting solutions
to this problem

96. is extremely valuable

97. but also very meaningful

98. technology aided
access to justice

99. Retail Legal Services
UK Edition
Interesting Models Are
Being Developed in UK

100. Retail Facing Legal Services
US Edition

102. Trend 4:
Law.Tech

103. LegalTechNYC is the
largest technology show
in the legal industry

104. 12,000+ attend~

105. Up to 20 billion dollars of
technology/commerce
on display**
**Estimate via Oliver Goodenough of Vermont Law School

106. My Friend
Bill Henderson ...

107. Took A Photo When We
Were At LegalTechNYC

109. He Then Asked ....

110. Who
Are
These
Companies?

111. What are they doing?

112. Process / Project Mgmt.
Workflow Optimization

113. Discovery /
Document Management

114. Search
Info Visualization
Automated Document Generation

115. Legal Analytics
Legal Prediction

116. Law + Tech Sector
is Heating Up

117. Some of these are
established
companies ...

118. But there are
many more coming ...

119. https://angel.co/

120. 15
2009
Law or Legal Related Companies

121. 15
2009
Law or Legal Related Companies

122. 15 400
2009 2014
Law or Legal Related Companies
+

123. R e p o r t e d s a l e
price between $35
million and $40
million.
Final Number was
likely between
$80 - $100 million
A n u m b e r o f
venture capitalists
have invested in
t h e c o m p a n y ,
including Silicon
Valley’s Sequoia
C a p i t a l w h i c h
invested $7 million
in 2007 ....

134. Law Schools as
academic research
institutions can help
support the frontier
of research and
development in law

138. Trend 5:
Tech/Process
Infused Law Firms

145. All of this is part of
so called #NewLaw

146. These Trends
(and Many Others)
Point to a Skills
Mismatch in the
legal market ...

147. In order to fully participate
students need a different
set of skills

149. What is Needed is

150. Real Innovation
Real Competition
and

151. An End to the
Age of Mimicry

152. In Other Words,

153. Law Schools Should
Stop Trying to be the
50th / 100th Best Harvard and Yale

154. Seriously,
These Schools
Are
Not Even
That
Great ...

155. And The Game Is
Rigged Anyway ...

156. The Game Is
Rigged Anyway ...

158. Outflank these Schools

159. By Making Their Backhand
Your Forehand

160. Just to
Make the Point

162. How Many
Professors
at either of these
Elite Institutions ...

163. Seriously Know
Anything About ...
Legal Information Technology
Legal Information Engineering?

164. Obviously that is a
rhetorical question

166. This Weakness Is
Serious Because The
Walls that Separated ...

167. Legal Education from the
Legal Services Market
Are Coming Down

169. And it is
Game On
:)

171. Time to Reboot What It Means
to ‘Think Like a Lawyer’

172. Substantive
Legal
Expertise

173. Is NOT Enough

174. {Law}

175. Has Already Become ...

177. {Law + Tech + Design + Delivery}
TM

178. where

179. { Law } = Substance

180. { Tech + Design + Delivery } = Process
{ Law } = Substance

181. {Law
Substantive
Legal
Expertise

182. {Law
Substantive
Legal
Expertise
Analytics
Platform
AI
Computing
KM
+ Tech

183. {Law
Substantive
Legal
Expertise
Process Engineering
User Experience
Design Thinking
Project Mgmt
+ Design
Analytics
Platform
AI
Computing
KM
+ Tech

184. {Law
Substantive
Legal
Expertise
Process Engineering
User Experience
Design Thinking
Project Mgmt
Business Models
Regulation
Marketing
+ Design
TM
+ Delivery}
Analytics
Platform
AI
Computing
KM
+ Tech

185. the thrust of this is actually
an idea developed @

186. T Shaped Professionals

187. The Components of the “T”
Obviously differ by subtopics but
there are some general themes

188. via
my former student

190. So How Exactly Can We
Train Law Students
to Thrive in
21st Century Law Practice

192. A Thought Experiment:
“MIT School of Law”

194. Blueprint for
Legal Education in the
Age of
Law’s Information
Revolution

197. I Guess I Was Fooled Because
it Made Tons of Sense to me

200. Many Current Lawyers
are really doing Hybrid Work

201. Law & ___ Tasks

202. Traditional Tasks with the
Substantial Aid of Technology

203. Extend This Idea to
Skill Blending in
Many Domains

204. Building The
“MIT School of Law”
Inputs (Different Students + Faculty)
Better Training = Better Lawyers
Connect to the Broader Industry Ecosystem
Attract
Train
Place

206. MoneyLaw:
The Student Admissions Edition

207. Systematically
Undervalued By
The US News Rankings
Posturing

208. Applied Mathematics
Computer Science
Statistics
Economics
Engineering
Information Science

209. Must Go Out and Recruit Them

210. To Do So, You Need
to Make the Case of
Why Your School
Over Others?

212. Critical Mass
Is Important

213. If You Build It They
Will Come

214. If You Build It They
Will Come
They Will Come If The Rest of the Team
is there to join them

216. Faculty =
Having
“Hiring Lines”
Biases You To
Present

217. The “Best” Athlete Approach
Depends Upon Which Sport
You are Playing

218. ≠
Tennis
Basketball
≠
Sumo Wrestling

219. Are You Sure You Have
the Right Athletes?

221. Training and
Skill Development
For Students

222. A Potential
Animating Rule ...

223. Every Course Be
Evaluated in Light of ...

224. its ability to help students
compete in the
Legal Labor Market

225. Down Come The
“Hot House” Walls

226. Of Course, There is
Uncertainty about What
Skills Are Needed

227. “65 percent of current grade-school kids may end up
doing work that hasn’t yet been invented”

228. Response --
Hedge By Providing Lots
of Different Types of Skills
>

229. Diminishing Marginal
Returns In Every Class

230. Therefore, Use The
Quarter System

231. And
Impose More Requirements

232. LAW

233. LAW

234. LAW

235. LAW

236. LAW

237. LAW

238. LAW

239. Who Said This
Was Going to
Be Easy?

240. Yes, there is going to
be math on the exam

241. Capstone is NOT
a Paper Alone

242. Unless it is a
Business Plan
w/ Mkt. Research

243. Students Must
Build Something...

244. Legal Incubator/ Startup
Legal Analytics Project
‘Lean’ Apprenticeship Program
Design/Legal Info Architecture Lab

246. Building The Ecosystem

247. R & D for the Industry
(Grant $$)

248. Legal R & D
(NSF Funding?)

249. Tech Transfer

250. Venture Capital
Angel VC’s

251. Strategic Relationships
with Key
Members of the Industry

252. Again Critical Mass
is Very Important

253. As Peer to Peer (P2P)
Education is Critical

255. Packaging the
Final Product

256. need to do something
different and question
status quo thinking

257. hack the existing
prestige hierarchy

259. Portfolios Resumes>
Evidence > Noisy Signaling

260. http://www.andyninh.com/

261. http://www.chasehertel.com/

262. http://about.me/
karenfrancismcwhite

263. http://patellis.wordpress.com/

264. http://briancpike.com/

265. http://www.amanismathers.com/

267. The MIT
School of Law

268. Don’t Expect A
New Law School in
Cambridge, MA

269. This is not a
blueprint for all of
legal education

270. probably more likely to
be a well functioning unit
within an existing school

272. What I Am
Really
Saying Is ...

273. “don't waste a crisis”

274. this is a very exciting time
in law.edu and there is
everything to play for ...

275. but the Future is
*Not*
Self-Executing

276. it is up to all of us ...

277. so lets go make
it happen!

278. Daniel Martin Katz
Chicago Kent College of Law
Associate Professor of Law
@ computational
computationallegalstudies.com
danielmartinkatz.com