Lawyers, Guns and MoneyTurning Compulsory Classes Into Actual Trainings

Ruta Stropus

LawyersI’m so BUSY

I know everything I need to know

Don’t waste my TIME!!!!!

Competitive mindset

Hierarchical

Law school is lecture based – boring, not practical

Guns

Continuing Legal Education is a Waste!!!! I only go to these programs to check the box

Money

Compulsory Education Focus is on hours, rather than improved

performance

Very little audience engagement; mostly a lecture model

Subject matter expert more familiar. Collaborative learning unknown.

“tellin ain’t training” My mission:

Using techniques I learned from Thiagi, Colvin Clark and countless others…….

Let’s take two boring topics…..

Civility

Court Rules

Civility The usual way – judges telling attorneys

how to behave

My experiment – storytelling, card play, team work, collective debrief

Tell your story/Listen to another Incivility – who in the work context has

treated you badly?

Go to another table and share and listen

Go back to your table and play stump the chump

Come up with practical how to’s

Lesson Plan attached!!

WhyWHY??

Sure, but what about technical training??? Objective: Master the differences among

different court rules exist in different counties.

Old way – someone distributing all the rules and going through them, one by one…….

New way – gaming!!!

“textra” Activity based on a text or lecture

Lecture first

Game later

You should try it!!

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