Schedule of Events

Thursday, January 13, 2011 

• LWOW participants arrive in London

Friday, January 14, 2011

• 10:30am-1:30pm (UCL Main Quad Entrance, Gower Street)
  
  • Legal London Tour for Students
    
    • John Flood
    • Renee Knake

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Location:  UCL Faculty of Laws Bentham House Ensleigh Gardens London WC1H OEG (near Euston Road and Gower Street)

• 9:00am-9:30am (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Breakfast (Tea, Coffee, Danish, and Fruit)
• 9:30am-10:00am (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  
  • Opening Remarks/Intros/Roadmap
    • Michele DeStefano Beardslee, Dame Hazel Genn, Trish White
• 10:00am-Noon (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Team Building and Idea Generation
    • Michele Destefano Beardslee, Jacqui Kinghan

• Noon- 12:15pm (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  
  • Break (Tea and Coffee)
• 12:15pm-1:30pm (D. Holland Lecture Lecture Theater)
  
  • Richard Susskind: End of Lawyers?
    • Introduction by Dame Hazel Genn
• 1:30pm-2:45pm (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Working Lunch and Group Discussion
• 2:45pm-4:30pm (Seminar Room 5)
  
  • Interview and Investigative Research Skills
    • Michele DeStefano Beardslee, John Flood, Rob Rosen, Hilary Sommerlad
• 4:30pm-5:00pm (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Afternoon Tea (Sandwiches and Scones)
• 5:00pm-6:00pm (Seminar Room 5)
  • Teams, Feedback, and Review
    • Michele DeStefano Beardslee, Jacqui Kinghan

• Homework
  •  Students work on Interview Question Template
  •  Students email Interview Question Template to two professors

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Location:  UCL Faculty of Laws Bentham House Ensleigh Gardens London WC1H OEG (near Euston Road and Gower Street)

• 9:00am-9:30am (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Breakfast (Tea, Coffee, Danish, and Fruit)
• 9:30am-10:45am (Tutorial Room 3 and Seminar Rooms 5,6,7,8,9)
  • Student Interviews of Subject Experts
    • Instead of having the experts give presentations to the students, students will utilize the skills they worked on the prior day to interview the experts. Their goal is to put together and deliver the presentation the expert would have given had we asked the expert to talk at the conference.  Thus, the students practice interviewing techniques, teamwork, communication and presentation skills.
    • Subject Expert Interviewees:
      • Chris Kenny, What's Legal Regulation For? (Tutorial Room 5)
      • Peter Kurer, Cultural Clashes: Lawyers vs. Business People and Common Law Lawyering vs. Other Concepts of Law (Seminar Room 5)
      • Selvyn Seidel, Litigation Funding, Outsourcing, and Burford Advisors (Seminar Room 6)
      • Peter Lederer, What I Would Have Done Differently in My Role as Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie (Seminar Room 7)
      • Cheryl Thomas, Beyond the Wig: Understanding Who Are and Who Should be Judges, and What Makes Judging Fair (Seminar Room 8)
      • Stephen Yandle, How Legal Education and Practice is Different in China vs the US and UK (Seminar Room 9)

• 10:45am-12:15pm (D. Holland Lecture Lecture Theater)
  • Current and Future State of Legal Education and Practice in the US and UK
    • Panelists:  Avrom Scherr (IALS), Trish White (MiamiLaw), John Flood (Univ. of Westminster), Bill Henderson (Indiana Univ.), Selvyn Seidel (Burford Advisors), Cheryl Thomas (UCL Laws)
    • Moderator: Dame Hazel Genn (UCL Laws)
• 12:15pm-1:30pm (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Working Lunch and Group Discussion
• 1:30pm-3:30pm (Tutorial Room 3 and Seminar Rooms 5,6,7,8,9)
  • Students Prepare Subject Expert presentations
• 3:30pm-4:00pm (Cissy Chu Common Room)
  • Afternoon Tea (Sandwiches and Scones)

• 4:00pm-5:45pm (D. Holland Lecture Lecture Theater)
  • Entrepreneurship, Legal Practice, and Rules of Success for Legal Start-ups
    • Panelists:  Donal Byrne (Corvil), Christiaan Vorkink (True Ventures), Natalie Campbell (A Very Good Company), Al Giles (Axiom), Sean Owen (Pentech Ventures), Eric Satz (Tenn. Community Ventures Fund)
    • Moderator:  Ray Campbell (Peking University STL)

• 5:45pm-6:50pm (D. Holland Lecture Lecture Theater)
  • Student Subject Expert Presentations
• 6:50pm-7:00pm (D. Holland Lecture Lecture Theater)
  • Closing Remarks

Monday, January 17, 2011

• LWOW participants depart London

Dress Code - Smart Casual i.e., jeans acceptable

If you need to contact someone about the event, please email Michele DeStefano Beardslee (mdb@law.miami.edu) or call 001-617-905-7066.