CALI conference June 13-15 in Chicago

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Michele Pistone

If you’ll be in the Chicago area this week, consider attending the CALI conference.  Info is available here.   This year’s conference is about Driving Innovation and will feature talks by Bill Henderson, Barbara Glesner-Fines, Conrad Johnson and many other innovators in legal education.  The conference will also include a number of session on one of my favorite law school innovations, flipped learning.  Need a primer on flipped learning, watch my video, available on the LegalED site and here.

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Teaching the Skill of Listening in Law Schools

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Michele Pistone

The wonderful research by Marj Shultz and Shelton Zedeck tells is that listening is one of the fundamental lawyering skills that all lawyers, especially recent graduates, need to have in their toolkit upon graduation.  So for the last few years, I have been trying to find ways to incorporate lessons on the skill of listening into my teaching.  I just saw a TED talk on listening. http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_5_ways_to_listen_better.html  In it, Julian Treasure recognizes the role of listening in stemming injustice and also gives some ideas that could inspire innovation in how we can teach the skill of listening.  What do you think?  Any ideas on how the exercises can be adapted for legal education?

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