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We kicked off with Rachel O’Connor of the Australian firm Allen Arthur Robinson taking us through various innovations and techniques operating in her firm’s offices.  Eg 50 hour policy – all fee-earners to devote 50 hours to KM pa; amalgamation of documentation across offices, advanced search, etc. Challenges included development of client-facing role, PSL role.…

I’m at a Knowledge Management Conference, in London, and speaking on the second day (more of that anon…).  Arrived via Terminal 5, Heathrow — was this a lesson in KM and project management to keep in mind for the session…?  Wendy Small (Eversheds) chaired the conference, and we started with a session by Lucy Dillon…

The Waking I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.I learn by going where I have to go. We think by feeling.  What is there to know?I hear my being dance from ear to ear.I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Of those so…

I spent five days last week in Japan, in Osaka, at the invitation of Professor Naoki Ikeda, at the Kwansei Gakuin University Law School, Umeda campus, in the centre of Osaka.  I was presenting a paper at the workshop & seminar held by the Law School on simulation in legal education, 8.3.08.  It was my…

Shulman’s ideas about signature pedagogy, which oddly enough didn’t have a high profile in the Future of Legal Education conference, still have me hooked.  They raise a central issue, namely the extent to which we are ruled by a learning outcomes model of education, and the whole technocracy and superstructure (in a Marxist sense) of…

This was a great conference, no doubt about it.  I talked to one participant who had already been to four Carnegie-related events since the publication of the book, and she said this one was the best to date.  It was international, drawing from at least ten different countries’ legal educational practice; it was broadly based…

Missed the first session of the final day’s concurrent workshops because I was absorbed in a conversation with clinicians…  Something of a theme in this conference.  Looked interesting, too, because on the subject of the Carnegie report, and the speaker talked about Reed, one of the earlier Carnegie reporters on legal education. 

Arrived late to the first session (talking to conference-goers), to find Kate Lauchland in full flow: funny, shrewd, accurate.  Eg on challenges: the God Professor who will not play nicely with others; dumping integrated components, failure to draw connections, time, avoiding lip service, more time…  She advised us to start small and build on success. …

I’m at The Future of Education conference in Atlanta GA by kind permission of Clark Cunningham, conference chair and organiser.  I’ll be blogging the conference on this blog over the next three days or so, posting when I get back to my hotel. 

The only thing wrong with the Learning in Law Annual Conference (LILAC) is that it appears much too early for Scots, whose welcoming of the New Year generally extends a decent three days at least into January and for me often includes climbing a mountain.  For some, Hogmanay, bridged by the mid-Jan Celtic Connections festival…

Just when the YouTube discussion finished on the posting below, a thread started up on ITFORUM on the subject of using YouTube.  It’s too long to quote in detail so I’ll summarise bits here, but it could have been written in answer to me!

Was writing a review of two legal educational texts (more about that in a later post) when a paragraph where I mentioned in passing the value of research sort of got hijacked and blocked by the topic, so thought I’d put down thoughts here to vent on it.  Why read research on education?