Ep 005: How Dan Linna is Indexing (and Teaching) Legal Innovation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What does legal innovation look like? For all the talk about innovation in law, who are the real innovators and what are they doing? This week’s guest,</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlinna/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Daniel W. Linna Jr.</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, an attorney and law professor, helps us answer that question.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Linna is the creator of the</span> <a href= "https://www.legaltechinnovation.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Legal Services Innovation Index</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where he is cataloging and indexing innovations at law firms and law schools. Through his work, he is helping us understand how law firms can better deliver legal services to their clients and how law schools can better prepare students to practice law in the 21st Century.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to discussing the index, Linna, a visiting professor of law at</span> <a href= "http://www.law.northwestern.edu/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, also discusses how he will teach his students about innovation and technology, and about the Innovation Lab he will help lead at Northwestern.</span></p> <p><br /> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Before moving to Northwestern this year, Linna was director of</span> <a href= "http://legalrnd.org/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">LegalRnD</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, The Center for Legal Services Innovation at Michigan State University College of Law. He is an affiliated faculty member of</span> <a href= "https://law.stanford.edu/codex-the-stanford-center-for-legal-informatics/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CodeX</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and cofounder of the Chicago Legal Innovation & Technology Group. He is a</span> <a href=