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Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law
In today’s legal marketplace, clients are demanding services that require a new skill set and a new mindset from lawyers. In Legal Upheaval , Professor Michele DeStefano lays out the trifecta for success in a changed legal creativity, collaboration, and innovation. DeStefano, a former marketing executive, now a professor at the University of Miami and guest faculty at Harvard Law School’s Executive Education program, has spent more than a decade researching the evolving legal marketplace. The book provides powerful evidence that collaboration toward innovation is the new value equation in law, creating stickier and more profitable client relationships.
In a conversational fashion, DeStefano takes us on a journey from why lawyers need to innovate to how they can do so. She unveils the Lawyer Skills Delta and maps out a methodology for filling the gaps in current legal skill The 3 Rules of Engagement and The 3-4-5 Method of Innovation for Lawyers. Full of points of reflection, as well as concrete directions, Legal Upheaval makes innovation accessible.
Why should you learn how to innovate? Even if you agree that lawyers could use a refresher on creativity and collaboration, you might still be skeptical. This book is written to inspire lawyers and legal professionals to embrace innovation practices, even if their business model isn’t “broken.” In the process of innovating, lawyers hone the mindsets, skills, and habits that clients desire―and, in the future, that clients will require.
The book is divided into three Part Why Lawyers Should Hone the Mindset, Skillset, and Behaviors of Innovators Part The 3 Rules of Creating a Culture of Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation Part The Innovation Putting Together the Theory, Practice, and Proof
Each chapter concludes with points of reflection designed to help the reader determine what are the best approaches for the team, department, or firm.
Born of DeStefano’s own work leading hundreds of multidisciplinary teams on innovation cycles, as well as conducting more than 100 interviews of general counsels and law firm partners, Legal Upheaval provides a new understanding of the expectations of clients. It is the playbook for lawyers looking to transform business relationships and create a client-leadership edge.
In a conversational fashion, DeStefano takes us on a journey from why lawyers need to innovate to how they can do so. She unveils the Lawyer Skills Delta and maps out a methodology for filling the gaps in current legal skill The 3 Rules of Engagement and The 3-4-5 Method of Innovation for Lawyers. Full of points of reflection, as well as concrete directions, Legal Upheaval makes innovation accessible.
Why should you learn how to innovate? Even if you agree that lawyers could use a refresher on creativity and collaboration, you might still be skeptical. This book is written to inspire lawyers and legal professionals to embrace innovation practices, even if their business model isn’t “broken.” In the process of innovating, lawyers hone the mindsets, skills, and habits that clients desire―and, in the future, that clients will require.
The book is divided into three Part Why Lawyers Should Hone the Mindset, Skillset, and Behaviors of Innovators Part The 3 Rules of Creating a Culture of Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation Part The Innovation Putting Together the Theory, Practice, and Proof
Each chapter concludes with points of reflection designed to help the reader determine what are the best approaches for the team, department, or firm.
Born of DeStefano’s own work leading hundreds of multidisciplinary teams on innovation cycles, as well as conducting more than 100 interviews of general counsels and law firm partners, Legal Upheaval provides a new understanding of the expectations of clients. It is the playbook for lawyers looking to transform business relationships and create a client-leadership edge.
296 pages, Hardcover
Published July 30, 2018
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July 12, 2024
I'm not sure I've ever felt technological angst quite like this before. There is a palpable buzz about artificial intelligence. People are nervous and excited. We wonder what benefits it might bring. We wonder what calamity. Michele DeStefano has written a helpful book, particularly for attorneys, that offers some perspective. She also offers some nice strategies on how to innovate in the changing legal world. This is one of the better researched book I've read. You don't have to take her word for anything, as everything comes with a footnote. If you're an attorney, this is definitely worth your time.
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