Oregon Law Review : Vol. 93, No. 4 (2015)
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Item Open Access Computer Uses in Legal Practice—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Melamed, James C.In 1970, some forty-five years ago, Steven E. Furth wrote "Computer Uses in the Law Office" in the "Oregon Law Review." Furth was a participating member in the Standing Committee on Law and Technology of the American Bar Association and manager of information systems marketing at IBM Corporation in White Plains, New York. At the request of "Oregon Law Review," I have returned to and reviewed Furth’s original article to look at how law office computer use has since developed and evolved.Item Open Access Closing Thoughts: Fear and Loathing of Lost Wages—Experiences as a Law Student and Disruptive Legal Technologist(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Hankins, AlecItem Open Access Legal Information Revolution! A Commentary on 'Computer Uses in Law Offices'(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Reynolds, Kelly C.This Retrospective discusses the evolution of computer-assisted legal research following the publication of Furth’s article in 1970. It explores how the digital revolution has impacted legal education and the profession as a whole, and it concludes by discussing how the next generation of lawyers can be trained in the digital world.Item Open Access Retrospective (Introduction)(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Editorial StaffItem Open Access Symposium: Disruptive Innovation in Law and Technology (Introduction)(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Editorial StaffThe 2015 Oregon Law Review Symposium, “Disruptive Innovation in Law and Technology,” held April 24, 2015, in Portland, Oregon, offered a cornucopia of prescriptions. By bringing together a coterie of experts from around the country, the Symposium sought to answer a fundamental question: What are the skills lawyers will need to succeed in the face of rapid technological and structural change?Item Open Access The Industrial Age of Law: Operationalizing Legal Practice Through Process Improvement(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Callier, Michael; Reeb, AchimThe need for law firms to evolve and innovate is well-known and much discussed. However, the term “innovation” has become a buzzword as firms struggle to implement innovation strategies. This Article not only advocates for law firm evolution through innovation, but promotes operational excellence as the optimum innovation strategy.Item Open Access The Future of Legal Education: Preparing Law Students to Be Great Lawyers(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Vogel, Peter S.For decades, many law school graduates have looked back at their legal education and concluded that they were not properly prepared to practice law.Item Open Access Finding Your Legal Niche(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Harris, DanThe legal world has changed, and most lawyers have not kept up. But it is mostly not our fault.Item Open Access Legal by Design: A New Paradigm for Handling Complexity in Banking Regulation and Elsewhere in Law(University of Oregon School of Law, 2015-05-08) Lippe, Paul; Katz, Daniel Martin; Jackson, DanIn this Article, we will describe the information-mapping aspects of the resolution planning challenge as an exemplary Manhattan Project5 of law: a critical enterprise that will require and trigger the development of new tools and methods for lawyers to apply when handling complex problems without unsustainably swelling the workforce and wasting resources. Consistent with Dodd-Frank’s focus on reorganizing and simplifying banks, we will focus here on the information architecture issues which underlie much of what is changing about how law and legal work product is delivered, not just for resolution planning, but more broadly.