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w w w . C A N A D I A N L a w y e r m a g . c o m F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 8 33 that's where all the growth is going to be. And schools are not preparing students at all for those roles. That's why Ryerson represents such a unique opportunity. There's no legacy. No cultural drag, in respect of building a multi-disciplinary, market-connected JD program that's aligned with a professional skillset." Lawyer Daniel Linna spoke to Cana- dian Lawyer at the end of a three-year stint directing the LegalRnD centre at Michigan State University's College of Law in East Lansing. There, classes incorporate scientific and quantitative methodology, and they include strong research and collabora- tion programs with legal aid organizations and law firms. The school introduces stu- dents to legal service delivery disciplines through co-curricular activities such as field work, directed study projects, speak- ers, weekly meetings, workshops, hack- athons, conferences and more. In early 2015, Linna started what is now a 38-school "law school innovation index" to measure the extent to which law schools have incorporated legal ser- vice delivery innovation and technol- ogy disciplines into their curriculum. The index's foundational goals include improving access to justice, via (you guessed it) innovative improvements to legal service delivery. Says Linna, "Where law schools real- ly have and have had an innovation deficit since the beginning of time is thinking about how we can improve the delivery of legal services; not working in the business as lawyers, but working on our business. How do we improve our delivery model? Serve more people, add more value and increase access to jus- tice. How do we not only become more efficient but improve quality, get better outcomes and provide better value to our clients?" Another problem, says Linna, is that law schools "aren't very well connected" with their customers and the outside world. In addition, says Linna, "Many law school faculty are not well prepared to teach some of these classes." Linna, who has guest lectured at Osgoode and is "very familiar" with Ryerson's Law Practice Program (an alternative to articling) as well as its Legal Innovation Zone, says that Canadian and U.S. law schools are for the most part engaged in "internal navel gazing." "Innovation isn't all about law schools creating new courses. Some of these top- ics have obvious integration points into existing courses. For example, docu- ment assembly and computable con- tracts in contracts law, data analytics and project management in negotiation, blockchain in evidence, cybersecurity, metadata and the extent to which com- petent lawyering mandates technology knowledge and usage in professional responsibility. "Why aren't law schools better con- nected with the technologists on cam- pus? With the business school? With humanities projects? There's tremendous opportunity. That's what they've tapped into at Ryerson. They're taking that kind of energy and applying it to legal service delivery . . . It's spot on." © 2017 Thomson Reuters Canada Limited 00248JF-A88728-CM AVAILABLE RISK-FREE FOR 30 DAYS Order online: store.thomsonreuters.ca Call Toll-Free: 1-800-387-5164 | In Toronto: 416-609-3800 Order # L7798-8090- 65203 $443 Hardcover Approx. 1160 pages January 2018 978-0-7798-8090-4 Shipping and handling are extra. Price(s) subject to change without notice and subject to applicable taxes. Update your library with the new edition of a Canadian classic. Previous editions have been widely used by courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and in other common law jurisdictions. New in this edition • More extensive treatment of claims for loss of earnings by women, loss of homemaking capacity, and loss of interdependent relationship • The effect of the Supreme Court of Canada decisions in: – B. (M.) v. British Columbia on loss of earning capacity and welfare benefi ts – Townsend v. Kroppmanns on management fees and discount rates – Krangle (Guardian ad litem of) v. Brisco on cost of care – Waterman v. I.B.M. on collateral benefi ts • Consideration of recent provincial fatal accident and survival action legislation • Consideration of issues of factual causation (SCC decisions in Clements v. Clements, Backwater v. Plint, and Hanke v. Resurfi ce Corp.) • Detailed treatment of the thin skull and crumbling skull principles following the SCC decision in Athey v. Leonati • Extensive treatment of the principles governing recovery for psychological harm (SCC decision in Saadati†v.†Moorhead) • Fully footnoted with alternative citations, including Internet citations • A separate chapter on mitigation New Edition Personal Injury Damages in Canada, Third Edition Ken Cooper-Stephenson, LL.B., LL.M., LL.D., and Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey, LL.B., LL.M., LL.M., D.Jur. The leading reference on the assessment of personal and fatal injury damages

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