Michael Bloom has been curating spaces for students and professionals to make mistakes (and learn from them) since 2009. His company Praktio provides interactive, online learning games and exercises for developing practical contracts skills for lawyers.
Tune in to this week’s Evolve the Law Podcast as Michael and Host Ian Connett (@QuantumJurist) discuss how mastering contracts can boost your legal career, what real world skills you likely missed in law school, the benefits of design jams and why senior partners at your law firm will soon be asking for a subscription to Praktio’s learning platform.
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Show Notes
- The origin story of Praktio – going from teaching a transactional law school clinic to becoming a legal tech founder.
- How “learning contracts” is like learning a new language or coding.
- How Praktio works. Teaching contract fundamentals (and others things you missed in law school).
- Why Praktio’s motto is “make mistakes.” Helping students and now customers enter the “growth mindset.”
- How Michael Bloom’s law school teaching days shaped his vision.
- Thoughts on if law school is preparing students for the new legal economy.
- On doing “design jams” in law school. Issue spotting and poking holes vs. creating and building out!
- Why contracts are important. How mastering transactional language can put your legal career on a faster trajectory.
- The importance of understanding the structure and anatomy of deal docs.
- Favorite client success stories.
- Why senior level partners are now on Praktio!
- How to learn more about Praktio, take a quiz and demo the product.
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