While technology races ahead, improving legal training and education has lagged behind. Law schools excel at teaching students the law, but critical and practical skills development is often lacking. With the traditional law firm apprenticeship model fading, junior lawyers frequently lack opportunities to gain hands-on experience.
Abdi Shayesteh, founder and CEO of the legal training platform AltaClaro, is on a mission to close this practical skills gap. Frustrated by the inefficiencies he experienced firsthand as a junior lawyer, Abdi has reinvented legal education and training. AltaClaro leverages experiential learning techniques rooted in education science to provide associates with hands-on practice on simulated legal matters.
Show Notes
- [00:01:14] Abdi's early entrepreneurial experiences managing a cafe and starting a t-shirt business in college
- [00:08:02] Why Abdi decided to start another company after previous exits
- [00:10:25] Overview of what AltaClaro does
- [00:17:38] Issues with the traditional law firm training model
- [00:23:00] Explanation of the learning science principles AltaClaro leverages
- [00:34:59] Training trends Abdi sees law firms requesting for 2023
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