1. #sbmfuturelaw

2. 3 Committees 15 Workgroups 166 people 130 meetings 12 months
4,000 volunteer hours
Efforts started back in 2012 and BROADLY INCLUSIVE, COMPREHENSIVE
2013 BLF: Richard Susskind addressed attendees – preeminent legal futurist
Tom picked it up and ran with it – assembled an incredible Task Force & Ctees.
2015 BLF: Jeffrey Cufaude spoke and provided great insight into strategic planning for our profession
I STOLE (with attribution) many of his ideas; used one of his quotes at each of our Committee meetings:
“We enter school as questions marks and end as periods. When we begin to color we are given a box of 64 crayons … when we graduate we have one blue pen.”
Encouraged Task Force and Committee members to think outside the box and color outside the lines
No sacred cows
Nothing off limits
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3. A Dysfunctional Legal Marketplace
THE PROBLEM
A Dysfunctional Legal Marketplace
KEY INNOVATIONS
Unified online legal platform with triage module
Legal Self Help Centers in all judicial circuits
Lay navigator standards and training 
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4. THE PROBLEM
Significant Issues for New Lawyers, New Challenges for Experienced Lawyers
KEY INNOVATIONS
Modernized admissions testing
Pro bono culture within the law student community through the use of SBM social media and member directory platforms
Individualized professional development and specialty certification in lieu of mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE)
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5. Inefficient and Overly Complex Legal Processes
KEY INNOVATIONS
Culture of routine business process analysis for ongoing improvement in legal services delivery and court processes
Civil process innovations, focusing on pretrial reform and removing appropriate types of cases from the judicial process
Online dispute resolution pilot programs
Statewide venue specialty courts
Tech-assisted remote legal services delivery
THE PROBLEM
Inefficient and Overly Complex Legal Processes
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6. THE PROBLEM Regulatory Hurdles
KEY INNOVATIONS
Comprehensive LSR system with LSR standards, coordinated with referral network
Better technology-based support for members by reallocating SBM resources
Proactive, preventive focused disciplinary system
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7. Cultural Resistance to Innovation
THE PROBLEM
Cultural Resistance to Innovation
KEY INNOVATIONS
Justice Innovations Guidelines
Justice Innovations
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8. Goal: member engagement in futures issues leading to consensus on direction
Required high visibility including social media

9. Development of Comprehensive Public Platform
State Bar
Lawyer Referral
PRO BONO INITIATIVE
Local Bars
Legal Aid Offices
Self Help
Community Resources
Court Access
E-Filing

10. What Comes Next?
Steering Committee has made recommendations regarding implementation
State Bar:
Rep Assembly and BOC will need to address certain recommendations
Strategic Planning under way
Supreme Court involvement
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Michigan Court Rules
Board of Law Examiners
Attorney Grievance Commission and Attorney Discipline Board
Michigan Legislature
Justice Innovations Center
Add implementation table?