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Jennifer Leonard is the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School's chief innovation officer and the executive director of the Future of the Profession Initiative.
Jennifer Leonard is the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law
School's chief innovation officer and the executive director of
the Future of the Profession Initiative. As chief innovation
officer, Jennifer advances projects that evolve our understanding
of the skills and knowledge lawyers need to thrive in a rapidly
changing professional landscape. She and her colleagues also
develop multidisciplinary projects that engage law students with
creative thinkers from the Wharton School, Penn Engineering, the
School of Nursing, and more to design solutions and make civil
legal systems more accessible.
In today's episode, Jennifer tells us about her
groundbreaking role as the first and only chief innovation officer
at a law school, how she is using design thinking to collaborate
across Penn and with peers at other law schools, and her advice for
creative law students who want to enter the world of Big
Law—as well as her advice for those firms.
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