A Vision for the Future of law

The Collaborative Series.

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When I started this newsletter, my first post was about creation, starting something from nothing. In my last post, I highlighted creativity as the variable and it (along with a bit of creativity of my own) struck a chord with many people. In this vein as we arrive at the 2 year mark of my FutureLab.Legal adventure (October 2020), I wanted to invite you to explore how our collective efforts contribute to the larger whole. We all partake of this wonderful creative capacity, it is only the direction in which we choose for it manifest that we can attribute to ourselves. So I will share what I feel about these themes and invite you to share yours. Let’s get started 🔥

Setting the Scene

The future of law is a wonderful place, it is the perfect marriage of the constitute parts working together to create the different possibilities that are available to us.

I wanted to explore some of these constituent parts as we head into my third year and as the pace and momentum builds in my work and surrounding opportunities the environment generates.

The Law itself is such a precious thing in all societies. It is truly a pillar which as a community we agree binds us in our interactions and togetherness. This is why it is so important for those who work in and around the law to recognize the station the Law represents and that it is this living phenomena which acts and reacts based on the people that ascribe to it.

At its core, the object of the Law may be considered the carriage of justice among the people - however I believe it is tied more intrinsically to us as humans and the need to be unified among our people. Justice therefore is a process not a product, and the Law therefore is an institution which is not celebrated on its immovability, but on its carefully understood and agreed upon boundaries.

It is the four-walled Garden of Eden after all that protects us from the Chaos outside, something to which we require for the fruitful living of our lives.

The Collaborative Series

From this grounding then, I want to explore several themes over the next few weeks and months spanning:

• Lawyers and their role in Society.

• Justice and Access to Justice.

• Technology and the role it plays in Law.

• Humans as the centerpiece.

• Government as an organizing function.

• Education and Learning.

This series will be an opportunity you to reconnect, reflect and refine your relationship with the themes shared.

I invite you to write, record or express your thoughts about each or any of the topics here:

I will be reaching out to some of my colleagues and friends for their input, please do the same for yours.

My hope is that through rigorous reflection and discourse together we will gain a deeper understanding of the elements that make up this wonderful world of Law that we involve ourselves in. Through this I will also have a chance to share what part I believe FutureLab.Legal and my work personally plays in service.

Importantly, it will generate a spark of thinkers and doers who can find others to begin the incredible process of creating something new and different. With the help of FutureLab.Legal, its resources and networks, we can always assist and work together to start and implement change.

Look out for my posts on Linkedin to join in on the conversation or feel free to reply to this email.

As always, the future of law is in our hands 🔥

Q.

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