Gratitude post. We just wrapped Sprint 2024 and we couldn't have done any of it without: *IE Law School Dean Soledad Atienza Becerril Vice Dean Eugenia Castrillón Martínez-Bordíu and Tana Greer, MBA, MA Victoria Jaffer &. their incredible team Maria, Vicky, Carlos, Luke, Rean. *Our 15 dynamic and energetic hacking teams were sponsored by Baker McKenzie Dentons DLA Piper EY Law, HSBC iManage Lloyds Banking Group Perkins Coie LLP Pinsent Masons TLT LLP White & Case LLP who brought a diversity of team members from all over the world. *Supporting sponsors BARBRI Global Bowmans (Law Firm) EY Law, Faegre Drinker The Ferraro Law Firm James Peters Lexington Consultants Simmons & Simmons Wavelength Peter Lee who provided scholarships, gifts and celebrations to the community.. *Felix Schulte-Strathaus, LWOW Advisory Board Member, CTO without whom Sprint would not actually work... *Insights of presenters and judges Phyllis Schaeffler Dealy STUDIO REINVENT, Firoza Dodhi Chad Fischer, Marcia Narine Weldon Illuminating Wisdom Erika Concetta Pagano James Batham Moray McLaren Lexington Consultants, Stacey Quaye Dustin Shay Anna De Stefano *The Innovations Coaches, Project Managers and Mentors that come to volunteer at Sprint each and every year. You know you are so appreciated. *The LWOW Advisory Board (you know who you are...you are our BACKBONE) *Our RAs Ani, Caitlin, Dhruvi and Kate and student helpers, Tiffany Perez and the team from the University of Miami School of Law... *Finally, we would like to thank our Sprint 2024 students and the universities and programs that support them (too many to tag). Your students are the heart of why it matters. If you are interested in participating again in #Sprint2025, please reach out!
About us
LawWithoutWalls teams legal and business students from around the world with practicing legal and business professionals, entrepreneurs, and academics on a journey of innovation and collaboration. Teams collaborate to solve a real business-of-law challenge during the LWOW Sprint—a legal hackathon mirroring real life Agile Sprints—and in the process, participants learn and hone problem-solving and innovation skills as well as teaming and collaborations skills, recharge the law market with innovations across business, law and technology, and revitalize relationships with colleagues, clients, and future talent across the globe. Given the needs of the new global, complex multi-disciplinary legal marketplace, successful lawyers of tomorrow must be creative problem solvers, leaders with a high risk tolerance and business mind set that can use technology, teaming and communication skills to overcome the walls of law. Solutions to the challenges of tomorrow call for even more collaboration and permeability between legal practice and education (current and continuing), an interdependent relationship with reciprocal obligations, and more interaction among people of different disciplines and different cultures. In other words, the future of law requires a mentality of a world of law—without walls.
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- Coral Gables, Florida
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- 2010
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TODAY! TODAY! TODAY! LWOW Table on the Bricks 12pm-2pm. University of Miami School of Law students, the award winning LawWithoutWalls initiative is coming up on our 14th year (and applications open soon for the LWOW Sprint in 2025)! Come find out more + speak to some fab student alums & RAs Samara Spiler Celina Hood Anahat Singh to learn more about how you can participate! #lawwithoutwalls #sprint2025
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Congratulations to Professor Michele DeStefano, director of LawWithoutWalls, on being selected as a winner in the 2024 Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards! Sponsored by Corporate Counsel, the award honors in-house and law firm women leaders and allies who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law.
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Corporate Counsel announced its 2024 Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards—congratulations to LWOW Founder Michele DeStefano for winning for Thought Leadership (law firm category)! #lawwithoutwalls #miamilaw
I may be jumping ahead of official announcements, but I'm just thrilled to congratulate my LawWithoutWalls' colleague and University of Miami School of Law's Michele DeStefano for being honored with an award in Thought Leadership (Law Firms) by Corporate Counsel's 2024 Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards (WIPL). Well deserved! #lawwithoutwalls #miamilaw #sprint2025
Corporate Counsel Announces Its 2024 Women, Influence and Power in Law Awards! | Corporate Counsel
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Professor of Law, University of Miami, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, & Program Chair Harvard Law School Executive Education
Do you know a driven, creative, detail-oriented individual with a passion for technology, innovation, education, and the legal marketplace? LawWithoutWalls is on the hunt for a new Senior Program Coordinator at University of Miami / University of Miami School of Law! Reach out to me or Anita R. for more details. https://lnkd.in/e4jbtPxx
Sr. Program Coordinator - School of Law in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Administration & Shared Services at University of Miami
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Head Teaching Innovation Lab @ University of St. Gallen | lic. iur., Executive MBA HSG; #HigherEd #HSG; #Politics #GLP; #Cheering for #AI
Only the best memories! I ❤️ LWOW! LawWithoutWalls
Professor of Law, University of Miami, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, & Program Chair Harvard Law School Executive Education
A LawWithoutWalls reunion at #LegalInnovation24 organized by Swiss LegalTech Association. So special!! Anita R. Bruno Mascello Maurus Schreyvogel Jacqueline Gasser-Beck Christian Rioult
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"The biggest issue is even if they know how to use AI, if they don't have the substantive law background, you can't discern whether you got a good answer." As law firms start to train summer associates to use generative AI, Professor Michelle DeStefano, director of LawWithoutWalls, emphasizes that even with AI knowledge, a strong foundation in law is required to discern AI output.
Law Firms Start Training Summer Associates on Using Generative AI
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Firms are training their summer associates in generative AI, recognizing its transformative potential. As Michele DeStefano notes, the "devil's in the details"; a substantive law background amplifies GenAI user accuracy skills. Link to the article by Justin Wise at Bloomberg Law below. https://lnkd.in/e-av-v8f #lawwithoutwalls #legaled
Law Firms Start Training Summer Associates on Using Generative AI
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Professor of Law, University of Miami, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School, & Program Chair Harvard Law School Executive Education
A LawWithoutWalls reunion at #LegalInnovation24 organized by Swiss LegalTech Association. So special!! Anita R. Bruno Mascello Maurus Schreyvogel Jacqueline Gasser-Beck Christian Rioult
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Transformation-minded firms like Bowmans (Law Firm), one of Africa’s preeminent law firms, sponsor students to participate in LWOW year after year, because like us, they believe more than ever that aspiring lawyers must be intrapreneurial thinkers and problem solvers capable of working across cultures and disciplines. Thanks especially to Bowmans Tammy Beira and Alan Keep for delivering opportunities and keeping LWOW top of mind. #lawwithoutwalls #Bowmans #legaled
It is important to us, as an authentically African law firm, to ensure that we make positive contributions to the communities in which we operate. We also consistently collaborate with various organisations, so that they too, can make positive contributions. One such organisation is LawWithoutWalls (LWOW). LWOW is an organisation with a deep understanding of the power of inclusive, intergenerational, cross-cultural, and multidisciplinary collaboration. It leverages this understanding to help drive innovation in the legal sector by changing the mindsets and behaviours of legal professionals and securing #sustainability in the legal profession by passing down valuable knowledge and skillsets to younger generations. Our involvement with LWOW includes sponsoring deserving students pursuing legal qualifications. Lehlogonolo Kgopa, who is part of our 2024 cohort of candidate legal practitioners, is an example of an LWOW alumnus who we have sponsored. Most recently we sponsored Terique Carim, a Wits (University of the Witwatersrand) Law Student Hacker, to attend the LWOW Sprint. Terique was part of a team that took on a challenge aimed at helping professional services firms to use AI tools to improve client service. Terique says ‘The LWOW experience that the sponsorship allowed me to have is indelible, and I have been able to bring back so much – both personally and professionally. My world is bigger, and I cannot thank you enough.’ He has created a video summarising his experience, which is available here: https://lnkd.in/dDTUKvZf
Terique Carim — LWOW Post-Sprint Self-Assessment
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