2024 Virtual Conference
The Future of Legal Mentoring: Navigating Supervised Practice, Technology, and A.I. While Maintaining Civility
Welcome and Agenda
- Nate Alder, Chair, National Legal Mentoring Consortium (NLMC)
Introduction
- Amy Timmer, Executive Director, NLMC
Plenary session: Mentoring/Supervised Practice as an alternative to the bar exam: the Oregon model.
- Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Meagan Flynn
Panel Discussion: How the Supervised Practice Portfolio Examination, as an improved measure of lawyer competency and alternative to a bar exam, may impact state bars, law schools, and law firms.
- Cathy Petrecca, Member Services Manager, Oregon State Bar
- Troy Wood, Regulatory Counsel, Admissions Manager, Oregon State Bar
Presentation: “Supervised practice” in the U.S. (“the portfolio experience”) and Canada (articling): are these good ways to prepare law grads for the art of practicing law?
- Jordan Furlong, Consultant to legal organizations in Canada and the United States; forecaster and analyst of trends and developments in the global legal market; author, speaker, commentator, expert in the field of legal services evolution
Panel Discussion: Technology for episodic, virtual, and matched-pair mentoring in bar associations and law schools; providing mentoring to law students and lawyers in remote areas.
- Len Polsky, Manager, Legal Technology and Mentorship, Law Society of Alberta, CN; Member, NLMC Advisory Council
- J. Ryann Peyton, Executive Director, Colorado Attorney Mentoring Program (CAMP); Board Member, NLMC
- Brian Pappas, Dean, University of North Dakota School of Law; Board Member, NLMC
Panel Discussion: What Does AI Mean for Legal Mentoring?
- Ben Grimes, BKG Leadership Coaching; Member, NLMC Advisory Council
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Panel Discussion: Professional Identity and Civility, From Law School to Practice.
- Jayne Reardon, Attorney at Fisher & Broyles, Advisory Council NLMC
- David Grenardo, Professor & Associate Director, Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, University of St. Thomas School of Law, MN
Virtual Breakout Rooms
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