Life is much, much bigger than the law, and the law and its lawyers could open up their senses to the technology that can enlighten and expand the perspectives of the life experience. For example, many lawyers have yet to use email, or integrate computer-based research into their practice - dismissing it all with the predictable excuse, “we’ve always done it this way”. This is troubling. (Think stare decisis.) Imagine an orthopedic surgeon who refuses to acknowledge the place of arthroscopy in his/her practice. The law and its lawyers are often notoriously behind the technology learning curve.
This website was created with the hope that all who read it will explore the arts, the disciplines and the sciences that are an integral part of a balanced life. These are not necessarily dependent upon what we know as "the law".
About a decade ago when I first started hearing that “story” and “storytellers” were making their way into CLE curricula I was skeptical. Actually, I was incensed! What an insult to our “profession”. My take on it had always been that anyone who could withstand the LSAT, law school, and the bar exam didn’t need help from any story teller, or for that matter, any layperson, about how to present a case to a jury. For all who still believe this way today, please hold tightly to your conviction. The current herd of trial practitioners could use a good thinning.
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-Albert Einstien
Information technology has changed the way we learn. I’m speaking of humans in general now – not lawyers[1]. Up until the last couple of decades or so – give or take – the model for gaining knowledge was fairly simple and predictable. We went to elementary, middle and high school. We then went on to college and various levels of higher formal learning. And some of us went on to submit ourselves to that special kind of insanity called law school, to borrow from an Arthur Miller quote. And what did each phase of that process share in common with all the others? First and foremost, it all took place in a designated place. A specific place where we all gathered so that we could be taught, whether crammed together in a one room schoolhouse or on the spacious campus of a modern university. We left home and we went off to school – school was always a place somewhere other than home.
[1] Some believe the two are mutually exclusive.