Legal Innovation
Welcome to the Legal Rebels Project
Posted Aug 25, 2009 9:31 AM CST
By Edward A. Adams
Our Legal Rebels project—profiling 50 of the profession’s leading innovators—gets under way today. (Learn more about why we launched the project and what we hope to accomplish at LegalRebels.com/about.)
We’ve posted profiles of our first seven Rebels, along with videos, audio slideshows about the changes they’re trying to make in the practice of law. We’ll be adding at least three new profiles to this site every week until Thanksgiving.
You can also directly participate in the project:
• Sign the Rebels Manifesto, which was written by lawyers nationwide.
• Ride shotgun on our two-week Rebels Tour, kicking off Sept. 14.
• Stay connected to the project through your favorite social media tool.
• Check out what others are saying about Legal Rebels on Twitter.
• Buy the Rebels T-shirt featured on our September cover, a mouse pad, or even a Rebels skateboard.
• Nominate someone you think we should profile.
We think of this project more as a journey than as a destination—a search for the future of the practice of law in America. We hope you’ll come along for the ride.
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Comments
B. McLeod
Aug 25, 2009 9:47 AM CST
Sorry. It doesn’t really have the look of a non-conformist movement, does it?
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mac
Aug 25, 2009 10:55 AM CST
Rebels work against the established order. Your definition of a legal rebel is just an innovator. That is not rebelling, that is just expanding the status quo with greater efficiency.
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roflol
Aug 25, 2009 11:56 AM CST
How about the ABA act like an actual trade organization and help the large volume of unemployed or underemployed young attorneys who incurred massive amounts of debt in order to get a job which does not exist in the real world? Perhaps by providing free CLE to unemployed attorneys? That would be some real innovation. Also, the ABA might want to look up the definition of “Rebel” in the dictionary.
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anonymous
Aug 25, 2009 12:38 PM CST
A rebel is someone who resists control, or an established way of doing things. I haven’t read your site that closely, but it seems like some of the people you have profiled include a general counsel of a Fortune 500 corporation and a paralegal who does due diligence for 80 hrs a week in a large law firm.
Are you all just being ironically sarcastic? If so, I just don’t get it.
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Dagz
Aug 25, 2009 4:00 PM CST
On the one hand I don’t want to plagerize but on the other hand I understand providing the link to the blogger who made this statement may result in removal of the entire comment so I am going to err in the direction of vague attribution. Suffice to say that these are not my words but they do reflect my thoughts regarding the Legal “Rebels”
“Most hilarious is the new “Legal Rebels” campaign spawned by the American Biglaw Association (ABA). Cry me a river for the recently laid-off AmLaw crew and their well-padded “plight.” Here’s a newsflash [expletive]: you’re about as “rebellious” as a 19 year old lesbian women’s studies major at Barnard pedaling her bicycle to a Natalie Merchant concert. Remember the Happy Days episode when Ralph Malph borrowed Fonzie’s leather jacket to impress a chick? It didn’t work for him, did it? You were never cool and certainly never “rebels,”....”
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J.D.
Aug 25, 2009 4:59 PM CST
I’d nominate John Yoo as a “rebel” for his legal work; he’s exactly the type of person who should be celebrated for bringing new ideas to the table and for trying to solve a legal dilemma our country had never really faced before.
But look at all the hate from the Left that being a rebel got him. The political left is all about conformity (which is no surprise considering that communism and socialism comes from the left as well). It’s really only conservatives who act as individuals and just want to be left alone.
But Obama, another non-rebel lawyer, is demanding we all submit to a grand plan in all areas of life.
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jennifer rose
Aug 25, 2009 6:47 PM CST
Why is the ABA selling skateboards? http://tinyurl.com/klspmn
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Dagz
Aug 26, 2009 9:51 AM CST
#6 J.D. - You mean new ideas like the idea that it’s okay to flush down the traditional ideals of the United States and free societies in general by torturing people? New ideas like ignoring every any provision of the Constitution under the concept that as a Commander in Chief during a time of war there are no moral boundaries whatsoever to what one can do? I think a short little man with a mustache in Germany embraced those ideals several decades ago in Germany.
Oops I Godwined. Sowwy.
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Rath
Aug 26, 2009 9:56 AM CST
#6 It certainly does take an untraditional mindset to make a public statement that it could be acceptable to crush the genitals of an innocent child as an interrogation method on a parent but I’m not sure that’s what the ABA had in mind when it coined the term “Legal Rebels.”
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B. McLeod
Aug 26, 2009 11:44 AM CST
Yoo is revolting. I’ll give you that.
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