C A N A D I A N L a w y e r 4 S T U D E N T S F A L L 2 0 1 5 9
Thompson
Rivers
University
law
course
looks
at
legal
challenges
ahead.
BY JANET GUTTSMAN
T
INVENTING
VENTING
the
the
LEGAL
LEGAL
WHEEL
WHEEL
here are no heavy legal textbooks
in the required reading for a bold new
course at the still young law school of
British Columbia's ompson Rivers
University, as assistant professor Katie
Sykes seeks to equip her students for the
rapidly changing legal landscape they
will face as newly minted lawyers.
Instead, students sign up as partners
in a fi ctional law fi rm, L21C, working
in teams, honing their billing skills,
planning new ways that law fi rms could
work, and then defending their ideas to
a "Dragon's Den" of local experts, not
all of them from the rarifi ed world of
academia.
