Sample program materials: Future Scenario Planning How will legal services be delivered in 2015? How will the legal profesion work ten years from now? Twenty? Will there even BE a legal profession as we now know it? Participants in this one-day scenario planning workshop at the 2002 annual meeting of the College of Law Practice Management explored responses to existing trends and imagined possible futures. They gained a whole new way of looking at the future of the profession and learned the power of scenario planning. The PowerPoint materials for the workshop explore what is happening to the legal profession, how to think about the future, the value of scenario planning, how to create scenarios, and some tips for success. Click and download the PowerPoint file named LPM College 2002.pps. Western States Bar Conference 2002: The Future of the Legal Profession What does the future have in store for the legal profession? How do we go about thinking about the future? What do we need to know, and how do we organize our thoughts? Can we influence the future? Can we take actions now to help bring about the future we prefer? This presentation keynoted the 2002 Western States Bar Conference in Las Vegas. Stuart Forsyth, The Legal Futurist, and co-panelists Paul Lehto (a Young Lawyers Section representative on the Washington State Bar Board of Governors), Angel Lopez (President of the Oregon State Bar) and Joe Crosthwait (a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Research About the Future of the Legal Profession) presented various scenarios of the profession’s future. You will find that the legal profession must be adaptable, creative and proactive to enjoy a positive future. If you have PowerPoint, click and download the file named WSBC 2002.ppt. If not, click and download the text file named WSBC 2002.rft. National Association of Bar Executives 2001: Log on to Learning: Continuing Legal Education and Distance Learning This presentation (a) reports on a January 2001 survey of state and metropolitan bar association CLE programs, (b) shares insights on how people learn [including lawyer personality types, learning styles and retention rates], (c) provides the context of constant change within which bar associations and their CLE programs must operate in the Information Age, and (d) urges CLE programs to accept the challenge to use new technology tools to create a more effective educational experience for lawyers. It was presented at the National Association of Bar Executives midwinter meeting in San Diego on February 14, 2001. Click and download the PowerPoint file named Log on to Learning.pps Practicing Law in the New Millennium: Vision 2000 . . . 3000—Practicing Law in the New Millennium This presentation describes the four great eras of the past and the five great waves of the future. It describes the context of constant change within which lawyers must operate in today’s Information Age, highlights the resulting societal tsunamis, lists the public’s needs regarding the legal profession, and explains why lawyers and courts may disappear if those needs are not met. Laws of change and a number of tips for successfully surviving these changes are included. First developed for the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Montana in 1999, this presentation also was given early in 2000 to (a) the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association and (b) the Law Society of New South Wales, Australia. Click and download the PowerPoint file named Practice in New Millennium.pps © 2002 Stuart A. Forsyth, The Legal Futurist