Today I'm reaching back to an episode I recorded for Megan Zavieh's Lawyers Gone Ethical podcast back in the early days of the pandemic (April 2020). I had just published a video titled Why US Courts Will Gridlock, about why I (correctly) believed that courts shutting down in early 2020 would have long-term ramifications for their dockets.
I bring it up now because the concepts I explored in that video (and in Megan's podcast) are every bit as applicable to your law practice as they were/are to the courts.
Topics Megan and I discuss include:
- The inherent tension between protection and accessibility.
- Survivorship bias
- Little's Law (or why work slows down if your inflow exceeds your outflow)
- Leveling the playing field for mixed-medium court appearances (one party in person and one party remote)
On that last one, there's a great (if esoteric) paper by Sufflok Law School's Quentin Steenhuis and David Colarusso on how the legal system can implement its own version of curb cuts--the mini sidewalk ramps that are essential for people in wheelchairs but also convenient for anyone pushing a stroller or who ran a maraton yesterday.
You can listen to my Lawyers Gone Ethical Podcast episode (number 110) using your favorite podcast player:
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