Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Jonathan Wolf, author of Your Debt-Free JD: How to Graduate from Law School Without Incurring Student Loan Debt. 

Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator, weekly columnist at Above the Law, and author of Your Debt-Free JD: How to Graduate from Law School Without Incurring Student Loan Debt. Jonathan shares his advice for those considering law school and making a decision on where to attend, discussing the financial implications of such a decision, and why things like "fit" should matter more than rankings. He explains his path to writing as a columnist and author while practicing law, and suggestions for those wanting to follow that path. He also makes predictions regarding the future of legal education.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Sean M. Scott, Dean and the President at California Western School of Law.

Learn more about Sean M. Scott, Dean at California Western School of Law. In this episode, you will hear how Dean Sean M. Scott started her deanship at California Western School of Law, an independent law school, amid the pandemic after serving 30 years at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She shares how she gained the trust of the faculty and staff at California Western School of Law to implement meaningful changes, which do not come easy when human interaction was halted for over a year. Dean Scott discusses her role as secretary for the National Association of Stand lone Graduate Schools, which aims to improve federal funding for institutions not attached to undergraduate programs scholarships, and her commitment to racial and social justice scholarships. Dean Scott tells us about the significant population of First-Generation students at California Western, which is in the top 10 for diversity in the country, and the importance to her to be at a school that is committed to diversity. Dean Scott shares her hopes for the future and how the law should respond to the political injustice built-in technology.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Professor Michael Madison from University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Michael Madison, Professor of Law and John E. Murray Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, describes the innovative work he and colleagues across the globe are doing with a virtual think that focuses on the futures of professions, globalization, and higher education, called Future Law Works. This initiative is complemented by Professor Madison's Future Law Podcast, which explores rapid changes to the law and the legal profession, including the intersectionality of contemporary technology. These innovations helped inspire the Future Law Project at Pittsburgh School of Law, interdisciplinary research, scholarship, collaborations, and convening initiative which serves as a forum for leadership conversations about ongoing transformations in the future of law as a field of expertise and information, and as a source and expression of social order and law as political, economic, and cultural infrastructure, again, amid massive changes to economic, technological, and geographic conditions. Professor Madison concludes by sharing his thoughts about the evolving role of lawyers that will complement the future of legal automation.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Brian Cuban, Dallas-based attorney, author, and addiction recovery advocate.

Brian Cuban, a Dallas-based attorney, author, addiction recovery advocate, and younger brother of Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban, discusses his recovery since 2007 from alcohol, cocaine, and bulimia. Brian has written three books, and during this episode, shares the experiences that inspired each of them. The first explored his decades of living with and recovering from eating disorders, entitled Shattered Image: My Triumph Over Body Dysmorphic Disorder. The second, The Addicted Lawyer, Tales of The Bar, Booze, Blow & Redemption, identifies the addiction and mental health issues that destroyed his successful legal career, and during the podcast, he shares the destructive nature of addiction and the rock-bottom circumstances which led to the start of his journey of recovery. Brian's experiences with addiction, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and hard-fought recovery are revealed candidly, and the often-shocking stories make his resilience and recovery even more compelling. Brian shares these stories nationally through personal appearances, his books, and numerous columns in national media outlets in order to encourage students, attorneys, and others facing similar challenges to seek help and start recovery. Brian gives advice to current law students, and encourages all of us to look out for one another using an inquiry that starts by asking "Are you ok?" Brian's first legal thriller, The Ambulance Chaser, will be published in December 2021.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Chad Chasteen the Director of Content Development for The Princeton Review. 

Chad Chasteen, Director of Content Development for The Princeton Review, responsible for lead content for their LSAT programming and their book, Cracking the LSAT, shares with us his thoughts about the reasons for last year's robust admissions cycle and his predictions for this year's cycle. Chad talks about the importance of preparation for the LSAT, and the value that The Princeton Review can add for applicants with programs that include such options as a guaranteed score. He advises applicants to consider student experiences, related services, and outcomes from particular law schools in order to determine their best "fit," information that is included in The Princeton Review rankings. Chad explains the reasons he believes the LSAT will continue to be the primary method of evaluating incoming law students, and concludes with additional predictions regarding the future of legal education.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Dean and Professor April M. Barton, Duquesne University School of Law. 

Dean Barton shares with us her passion for a topic she believes is critical for law students, leadership development, and the Leadership Fellows Program started during her tenure that includes 1L Dean Scholars, the leadership of registered student organizations, and other students who self-nominate or are nominated. She describes initial steps to incorporate leadership development into the curriculum for all students, through the required Professional Responsibility course, and how leadership is approached as a mindset, not the result of title or hierarchy. Dean Barton recounts the origin of Duquesne, the only Catholic Spiritan institution in the world, one that was originally created to educate immigrants. Dean Barton explains that the future of Duquesne School of Law is focused on the three pillars of interdisciplinary learning, leadership development, and community well-being. New programs developed under these pillars include a 9 credit business micro-credential, a 1 credit financial toolkit course, and hi-flex opportunities for learning. Topics discussed when considering the future of legal education involved belonging, DEI, and improving access to legal education for those currently underrepresented.

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Chancellor John Pierre of the Law Center at Southern University.

 Learn from Chancellor John Pierre about how Southern University's Law Center came into existence following desegregation litigation, and the vibrant and diverse student body it currently serves. Chancellor Pierre discusses the Law Center's focus on preparing its graduates for technology in practice and as a tool to increase access to justice, including the incorporation of eBooks and iPads for use by each student. Chancellor Pierre shares the "communiversity" approach of the Law Center, particularly in its clinics that include disaster recovery assistance, and entrepreneurship, and small business advising following a disaster. Chancellor Pierre opines on the future of legal education, and how we need to think more creatively about achieving our goals of increasing diversity of the profession and access to justice, by preparing professionals for more than the single role of a J.D. 

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Ronald Weich, Dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law. 

Dean Ronald Weich shares with us his non-traditional path from assistant attorney general and chief counsel positions in the Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, respectively, to the position of Dean at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Dean Weich discusses how those experiences inform his current position, and how deans can best interact with students who are passionate about current events and want to see reform in the legal system. Listen as he describes the significant role that experiential education plays in his law school, including a robust clinical program, and discusses the newly created Criminal Justice Reform Center established by a generous alumnus. Dean Weich also predicts how legal education is likely to change, and how it should contribute to solving the access to justice crisis. 

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Meera E. Deo, Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles.

Professor Meera E. Deo, J.D., Ph.D., from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, is a national expert on legal education, racial representation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and also serves as the Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) based at Indiana University-Bloomington. Professor Deo discusses the results of the research for her book, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia, which examines how race and gender affect faculty and student interactions, as well as tenure/promotion, institutional support and work/life balance. Professor Deo shares her recent work building on her initial studies, research that explores the negative impact that COVID-19 has had on the legal academy, including the disproportionate challenges faced by women and faculty of color. In her role as Director of the LSSSE, she gives a preview of the troubling results forthcoming in this year's annual survey, one that is uniquely poised to provide insight into the experiences of COVID-19 law students. Professor Deo concludes with her opinions regarding what the future of legal education is likely to be, and what it should aspire to be. 

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Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we hear from Dean Hari M. Osofsky, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. 

Hari M. Osofsky is the Dean and Myra James Bradwell Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and Professor of Environmental Policy and Culture at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, positions she has held since summer 2021. Prior to that, she was dean at Penn State Law and Penn State School of International Affairs, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of International Affairs and of Geography during her four-year tenure at Penn State. Dean Osofsky discusses her reasons for becoming a lawyer and a dean, and for her recent switch to Northwestern during the continuing pandemic. She shares her deep commitment to issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and racial justice, and the numerous roles she has played in advancing collaborative projects across universities and law schools that can address those issues on a systemic level. Dean Osofsky describes her leadership style, the efforts that have aided in keeping a sense of community and gratitude at two different law schools, and her exploration of the intersection of law and technology and how it might address access to justice. She concludes with her expectations for the evolution of legal education in the coming decade.

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