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Legal Services Needed; Lawyers Need Not Apply, Gillian K. Hadfield
Legal Services Needed; Lawyers Need Not Apply, Gillian K. Hadfield
Gillian K Hadfield
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Producing Law For Innovation, Gillian K. Hadfield
Producing Law For Innovation, Gillian K. Hadfield
Gillian K Hadfield
In this chapter I first discuss why we need to think of legal infrastructure as economic infrastructure requiring focused economic policymaking, what is wrong with our existing legal infrastructure and why we need to change our modes of legal production. I then set out a vision of what greater reliance on market-based production of legal infrastructure could look like. Finally, I suggest some concrete steps that policymakers can take to move us toward a more open, competitive system of legal production. These include 1) opening up access to the provision of legal services, such as by establishing a federal licensing …
Producing Law For Innovation, Gillian K. Hadfield
Producing Law For Innovation, Gillian K. Hadfield
Gillian K Hadfield
In this contribution to the forthcoming Rules for Growth prepared by the Kauffman Task Force on Law, Innovation and Growth, I first discuss why we need to think of legal infrastructure as economic infrastructure requiring focused economic policymaking, what is wrong with our existing legal infrastructure and why we need to change our modes of legal production. I then set out a vision of what greater reliance on market-based production of legal infrastructure could look like. Finally, I suggest some concrete steps that policymakers can take to move us toward a more open, competitive system of legal production. These include …
Equipping The Garage Guys In Law, Gillian K. Hadfield
Equipping The Garage Guys In Law, Gillian K. Hadfield
Gillian K Hadfield
The twin structural changes of the last few decades—globalization and the emergence of a web-based platform for economic activity--have transformed the economic demand for law. The market for law, however, has struggled to keep up with these changes, showing few signs of the kind of innovation that we see in many other sectors of the new economy. Even our most sophisticated and innovative corporations report difficulty in finding lawyers with the kinds of risk-attuned and creative problem-solving skills that they need (Hadfield 2011). Some large corporate clients have gone so far as to refuse to hire new law firm associates, …