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Listen to learn more about iDesign, a company that changed the business model of online program management, long before the pandemic (and long before it was cool!). They bring a faculty-centric approach that focuses on quality course delivery and student learning outcomes when engaging partners in course design and delivery of online and blended programs, and they do so with a flexible fee-for-service model, rather than the more traditional long-term high-profit share costs of some OPM providers. Paxton Riter, Co-Founder, and CEO, and Jared Brueckner, Senior Vice President, discuss the work they are doing with more than 100 higher education institutions and share with us some evolutions specific to legal education. They discuss some innovations in online education and the importance of stackable credentials and flexibility in the delivery model as we adapt to a more virtual and post-pandemic economy and an increasingly competitive higher education environment. And to top it all off . . . they're from Texas! Thank you so much for tuning in.

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Enjoy our 50th Episode of EdUp Legal! This milestone episode includes a conversation with Alena Allen, Interim Dean at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville School of Law, a position she started in January 2022. Prior to taking on this Interim Dean position, she served as their Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development and as a Professor of Law, positions she started in summer 2021. Dean Allen shares the unusual path to this deanship and the circumstances that prompted her to depart her prior law school after 11 years of service. Dean Allen discusses the challenges of balancing legal practice and teaching in the academy, respectively, with parenting, and the inequities for people of color in both faculty positions and law school leadership in the majority of law schools. Dean Allen expresses her enthusiasm over her law school's Public Interest Fellows Program, and the emphasis and impact they are providing to ensure success for First-Generation students. If you care about diversity in legal education, both for our students and our faculty/leadership, you won't want to miss this episode!

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Marc L. Miller, Dean, and Ralph W. Bilby Professor of Law at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law shares with us the trailblazing they have been doing since he took the role in 2013. Dean Miller discusses the expansion of their global programs to the point where they surpass the J.D. program in tuition revenue and the experience of the law school in being the first to adopt the GRE as another admission metric. He shares the impetus and evolution of JD Next, their partnership with ETS for a pre-matriculation preparation program for law students nationally, as well as details about their B.A. in Law, the first of its kind in the U.S. There are now 1,600 majors in the B.A. in Law, with more than 500 of them in dual degree programs in East Asia. Dean Miller believes that their expansion to utilizing the GRE, the B.A. in Law, and J.D. Next, all aid in diversifying the profession. James E. Rogers College of Law is also launching certificate programs that prepare undergraduates to work as legal advocates after graduation, thus helping to meet Access to Justice needs. This builds on their already successful Master of Legal Studies program. Learn more about these exciting initiatives in this episode!

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Laura Frederick is the Managing Attorney of Laura Frederick Law PLLC in Austin, Texas, and the Founder and President of How to Contract. Laura has 25 years of experience helping clients with their business contracts and technology agreements.   She spent ten years as a technology transactions attorney, including five years at Morrison & Foerster.  She spent 14 years working at technology and energy companies, including Tesla, SolarCity,  Hanwha Q CELLS, and PPL Corporation, all of which convinced her that more professional training was needed in the nuances of commercial contracting. Her LinkedIn daily contract tips led to the creation of How to Contract, and the publication of her bestselling book in late 2020, “

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Learn from Andrew M. Perlman, Dean of Suffolk University Law School and Professor of Law, about the innovations at Suffolk Law in the area of curricular reform, admissions, and the delivery of legal education. Dean Perlman started at Suffolk Law as a professor in 2001, and since then has been instrumental in paving the way towards the future of legal education, including his role as founding director of their Institute on Legal Innovation and Technology (you can learn more about it in Episode 29 with Gabe Tenninbaum) and inspiring their Legal Innovation and Technology Concentration. Whether considering alternative pathways to admission to law school in order to diversify the profession, or offering creative delivery models of legal education to maximize access, or train law students to develop technology tools to aid in providing access to justice, Suffolk Law is redefining what law schools can do. Dean Perlman also took that creative eye towards collaborations among law schools that can help advance systemic change, including the ABA's Legal Education Police Practices Consortium, in which St. Mary's is a founding member, and includes dozens of other law schools.

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Enjoy this conversation with Neil Fulton, a "South Dakota" kid who was selected by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals to serve as a federal public defender for North Dakota and South Dakota. Dean Fulton now leads the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, the state school in a rural state whose graduates benefit from the second-lowest debt load in the country. USD prides itself on attracting and educating students who seek to excel, serve and lead, and the focus on servant leadership means that many of the positions in government include alumni from the law school. The education offered now includes legal writing requirements every year, starting with a 1L practicum to complement the criminal law class, and prepares graduates to serve as generalists, so they are suited for a small town or solo practice, or anything else they seek to do in the private sector or through public interest. Dean Fulton discusses the deep, personal connection that students in their 80-person classes develop with the faculty who relish the engagement with, and mentorship of, their students. Finally, Dean Fulton shares his predictions for the future of legal education, and the hope that law schools become less homogenous, and more reflective of their geographic location and community legal needs, and their own identity as institutions.

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Learn more about Joshua P. Fershee, Dean of Creighton University School of Law, and the journey that led to his service as the law school's 11th dean beginning in July 2019. Dean Fershee shares that this Omaha, Nebraska law school enrolls nearly 400 students annually, with almost half coming from Nebraska and Iowa. Creighton University School of Law has significant opportunities in clinics and pro bono, including their Juvenile Justice Clinic. They offer concentrations in Energy and Environmental Law, as well as Sports Law, given the wide-ranging sports activities that occur locally, including the College World Series. They also offer a concentration in Health Law, and are excited that Creighton University is planning a medical school campus in Phoenix, Arizona, one the law school hopes to collaborate with on a health law externship or residential clinic. Dean Fershee also shares his excitement about the partnership between Creighton School of Law, the Nebraska State Bar Association, UNL Law and 16 law firms and businesses that have joined together to create the Nebraska Legal Diversity Council (NLDC) in order to work towards lessening disparities in the state of Nebraska to create a more diverse and inclusive legal community.

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Learn more about Verna L. Williams, Dean and Nippert Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati School of Law, who calls herself "an accidental dean" given her 18-year tenure as a faculty member at the College of Law before assuming the leadership post in 2019. Prior to joining the faculty and becoming co-director of the College's Judge Nathaniel Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, she was Vice President and Director of Educational Opportunities at the National Women's Law Center, focusing on gender equity in education, successfully arguing before the United States Supreme Court the case of Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, which established that educational institutions must respond to and address complaints of student-to-student sexual harassment. 

Dean Williams discussed the beautiful new building that will house the School of Law and their new Master of Legal Studies that debuted in January 2022. She shared the social justice mission of the law school, and their significant clinic offerings, including those focused on Legal Access, Indigent Defense, Domestic Violence and Protection Orders, Entrepreneurship and Community Development, Innocence, Patent and Trademark, and cases actively pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Dean Williams also provided a candid glimpse into her friendship with her 1L Moot Court partner at Harvard Law School, and the role she played in chronicling that partner's life as First Lady of the United States, someone we all know as Michelle Obama.

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Learn more about Michael Scharf, Co-Dean since 2013, Joseph C. Hostetler and BakerHostetler Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. Dean Scharf utilizes his international law expertise to help grow and manage Case Western's foreign legal studies program, which includes robust LLM and SJD enrollment annually. Dean Scharf explains the ways that the international students in these programs enrich the experience of the JD students and actively engage with the law faculty, and the benefits that the Case Western degrees provide for the international graduates, who stay closely connected to the law school after graduation. He shares suggestions for other law schools seeking to maximize their success in starting and maintaining similar programs, and the significant benefits of doing so. Dean Scharf is also a convincing advocate for the leadership model of co-deans!

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Enjoy this conversation with Eduardo R. C. Capulong, who was appointed Interim Dean of City University of New York School of Law in the spring of 2022. Dean Capulong is an alumnus of CUNY, and he joined as the Director of the Lawyering Program in 2019. Prior to that he was Professor of Law and inaugural Associate Dean for Clinical and Experiential Education at the University of Montana, and he held additional lawyering and public interest teaching positions at N.Y.U. and Stanford, the latter as externship programs director and lecturer. He started his legal career as a litigator, policy analyst and community organizer.

Dean Capulong described CUNY as a place that trains social justice lawyers, and that prepares its graduates to practice law in the service of human needs. They are regularly ranked as the #1 law school for public interest, and they attract students for whom social justice is a passion. Dean Capulong shared the efforts he and the faculty are engaged in to reform the curriculum, and his commitment to help move the school and community forward after a painful period. 

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