Track 3: Should We Change too? Re-envisioning Clinical Pedagogy to Include Law Practice Management and Technology: Teaching Students Marketable Practice Skills While Widening Access to Justice.

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Current market conditions and innovations in technology are revolutionizing the way the legal industry delivers services and have law schools rethinking the way they provide legal education. Clinicians are well placed to lead this reform by helping to introduce experiential learning throughout the curriculum.  However, should we reform our own pedagogy as well?  The MacCrate report was published 23 years ago.  While remaining highly relevant it too must be examined and updated.  Clinicians should broaden our current pedagogy to include teaching students the use of technology to create practice efficiencies that will allow greater access to legal services for low and moderate-income individuals.  We should also teach students law practice management skills such as marketing, customer relationship management and billing structures so that they graduate with the skills necessary to be successful 21st century lawyers. The goal of this session is to explore how clinicians can integrate instruction and experiential training in these competencies into their current curricula, and promote access to justice in the process.