It may seem like the non sequitur of the decade, but getting a job as an information architect after years of studying law textbooks and taking practice bar exams isn’t the worst way to start a legal career.
In fact, one school thinks it may be the best way. At Michigan State University School of Law, two professors are teaching future lawyers a practical way to use their education—building legal technology as enterprise information architects, according to Mathew Miller for the Lansing State Journal.
As firms begin to grasp the many real-world applications of big data, partners are looking for young people that can make sense of it all. At MSU, professors Daniel Katz and Renee Knake run the Reinvent Law Lab teaching students how technology is remaking the legal services market—and how to carve a niche in it for themselves. (See “Assassins Aim to Reinvent Big Law.”)
A decade ago, U.S. News & World Report said MSU was competing among the fourth and bottom-most tier of American law schools, writes Miller. Now they’re at number 80 in the second tier and rising.
