Brooklyn Law School dean addresses graduating class
A new class of lawyers graduated from Brooklyn Law School on Friday, June 7. At the 112th Commencement Ceremony, held at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, BLS Dean Nick Allard hailed the “new guardians of our enduring democratic republic”: the graduating class of 2013.
“The impending legal revolution will occur on your watch. Everyone wants more for less,” Allard said to the bright-eyed new lawyers as they prepare for a world where traditional legal jobs are slowly transforming.
“ So you newly minted lawyers will have to be faster and cheaper, and also better, which means thoughtful, sound, wise and creative. The walls protecting the traditional citadel of law practice are tumbling down by superstorm trumpet blasts of change as surely as those ancient walls of Jericho fell – letting non-lawyers in to do work that can be done cost-effectively and well without a J.D., and letting all of you out to pursue your life’s work wherever and however you choose; free to use your hard-earned license for critical thinking and critical problem solving, in myriad new ways; maybe doing work lawyers never did before.
“You will also grasp and master how advanced information technology in a mobile interconnected world disrupts and transforms law, and you will teach us at the law school how best to prepare your younger legal siblings to follow you using new technology.