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It became an Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference tradition to kick off the first day with a series of Ignite presentations. Presenters have 6 minutes, 20 slides, and 18 seconds per slide to share their projects, successes, and innovative ideas with a room full of legal educators and employers. Below is a list of past presentations.
2017:
- Charles H. Rose III: Simulated Client Experiences in Advocacy Competitions
- Kate Kruse, Ana Pottratz Acosta & Leanne Fuith: Client Contact from Day One
- Michael J. Madison: Teaching Leadership from the Bottom Up
- Stephanie Wilson: Law Librarians Embedding in Clinical Courses
- Christine E. Cerniglia: Serving the Community and Students through Courthouse Self-Help Desks
- Robert D. Dinerstein: Structuring Student Self-Assessment to Prepare Entry-Level Lawyers
- Leah Witcher Jackson Teague: Lawyers Are Leaders: Shouldn't Law Schools Better Prepare Students for this Role, Especially Now?
- Megan Riesmeyer, Lucy Johnston-Walsh: Advanced Clinic, Advanced Preparation
- Rona Sisson: Find Yourself, Find Your Clients - An Introduction to the Study of Legal Taxonomy
- Edward Hart: Alternative Legal Research - Going Beyond Wexis!
- Karen Lockwood: Tomorrow's Clients, Tomorrow's Lawyers, Tomorrow's Justice and Democracy
- John Mayer: Can Experiential Learning Solve the Access to Justice Problem?
- Stephanie Ledesma: Cultural Compassion - A New Model of Legal Representation
- Elizabeth Fraley: Helping Recent Grads Improve Access to Justice
- Robert Furnier: Learning to Serve Tomorrow's Clients by Building Technology
2016:
- Nancy Maurer, Christine Chung, Mary Lynch: Alumni Focus Groups and Pathway Competencies: capturing community expertise to inform student learning
- Charlene James: Talking Growth: Thurgood Marshall School of Law’s Faculty Resource Site
- Randy Wagner: Assessing Professional Identity Formation at Denver Law
- Josie Gough: Building a Community of Legal Professionals- A Collaborative Effort
- Rebecca Trammell: Are We Assessing the Right Things? Are We Teaching the Right Things?
- Mike Madison: Tracking Achievements and Competencies: A Digital Badging Strategy
- Orit Shalomson: Structured Simulations for a Large Number of Students in a Short Time
- Benjamin Madison: Remembering Carnegie's Third Apprenticeship: A Learning Outcome and Course Designed to Advance Professional/Ethical Formation and Decision-Making
- Courtney Brooks: Exposing student foundations: professional portfolios in externships
- Timothy Kaye: Feedback: Fixing Problems You Didn't Know You Had
- Elena Baylis: Equipping Law Students with Policy Skills
- David Thomson, Steve Daniels: What Students Say about Experiential Learning: Preliminary Results from a Three-year study at Denver Law
- Leanne Fuith: Integrating Career Development Across the Curriculum
- Jeff Pokorak: Lawyer Professionalism and Law Professorism – We Need a Universal Translator!
2015:
- Erika Pagano: Building the Future of Law Today
- Natt Gantt: Leadership Development for Law Students
- Randy Wagner: Assessing Learning Outcomes Piece by Piece
- Mary Lynch, Rosemary Queenan: Inclusive Strategic Planning and Adoption of Learning Outcomes
- Laurel Terry, Camille Marion: Dickinson Law’s New Curriculum and its Focus on Student Outcomes
- JoNel Newman: Students' Self Assessments of Competency
- Ann Southworth: Teaching Ethics and Professional Identity in the First Year
- Fernando Colon-Navarro: Technology and Assessment in the Legal Classroom
- Mary Bowman: Collaborating for Transfer
- Jerry Slater: Preliminary Outcomes of an Innovation Curriculum
- Andrew Crouse: Mitchell's Hybrid JD Program
- Dan Jackson, Hemanth Gundavaram: Northeastern Law’s Curriculum Transformation Project
- Rodger Citron: The Portals to Practice – Experiential Education at Touro
- Christine Cerniglia Brown: Learning Outcomes and Implementing New ABA Standards
- Docia Rudley, Cassandra Hill: Developing Meaningful Program Assessment
2014:
- David Thomson: The Experiential Advantage Program at the University of Denver
- Jeremy Paul: Law School Assessment, the Positives and the Negatives
- Andrew Schepard: Interdisciplinary Learning Through the RCSDF at the University of Denver
- Michael Madison: The Innovation Practice Institute
- Jay Finkelstein: Collaboration to Produce the Practice Aware Lawyer
- Ilene Seidman: Accelerator to Practice
- Natt Gantt, Ben Madison: Cultivating Professional Identity in Law School
- David Herring: Course Level Assessment to Institutional Level Assessment
- Jennifer Gundlach: Improving Learning Outcomes
- Kate Kruse: Hamline Lawyering Skills Lab