ABA Journal, What Skills Do New Lawyers Need? Lawyers Asked to Provide Answers in New Survey:

What kind of lawyering skills will be needed as artificial intelligence and new technologies change the profession?

That is one question that may be answered by practicing lawyers who are being asked to respond to the Foundations 2.0 survey being emailed beginning Monday. The survey is sponsored by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver and the Law School Admission Council.

The survey seeks to identify the skills and competencies that new lawyers need to be ready to practice and to be effective. The results will provide guidance to law schools that may want to incorporate the findings into their curricula, as well as bar associations that provide continuing legal education to lawyers.

“We are hoping we can use this research to create a competency model for the profession,” says Zachariah J. DeMeola, the senior director of strategic initiatives for the LSAC. “We look at it as a real investment in the future.” …

More than 24,000 lawyers from all 50 states responded to the first Foundations for Practice survey that launched in 2014. The hope is that lawyers responding to the new survey will represent every legal field and every geographic and demographic sector, according to online information here and here.

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