Those of you who are passionate about astrology must have heard that although nobody could really predict the Pandemic, most astrologers and other professionals in the related fields knew that a major event was coming due to the 6 or 7 eclipses that took place in only one year, which is a lot. A worldwide financial crisis was expected, but not a pandemic, and we've ended up having both. This tells us that there are signs everywhere we just don't see them because we refuse to, or we are not ready. Maybe we were not ready to see the pandemic coming because we were not ready for a big change on the conscience level. Eckhart Tolle calls it "collective spiritual awakening". How would it feel to live in a collective spiritually awakened world?
Another phenomena, which keeps me thinking is the element of trust. You would think that nowadays, people are prone to trust less than they did it in the past, when in fact, it was proven that they trust more. We are okay with giving away our credit card and personal identification information to vendors we don't know, who may be located in our area or in another part of the world. We trust an e-commerce shop to deliver our package, in a certain time and to our home address. When else did people have so much faith in the unknown? It is true that technology plays a big part in that. Technology did make us do things that we never thought were possible. However, in the light of the current events, what technology could not do was to make us trust people not crossing the 6 feet line for the fear of putting in danger our health or the health of those we dearly love.
To me, all these elements are interconnected. The Pandemic is affecting the awakening of the collective conscience and the element of trust is definitely being transformed as well. At least we are able to see where we are on a human level. But, how about our level of trust in the institutions?
If you live in a big city like New York, you will notice that as the world moved to operate remotely, many of the institutions had to redefine themselves. The city's structural matrix has been transformed and reorganized as well. Many of them even became obsolete. One area that became even more affected was education; be it elementary, middle school or higher education.
If yesterday, Law Schools were rated for their reputation and trust, a guarantee and an investment in a better future, today its positioning raises a lot of questions. So, how would Law Schools need to reinvent themselves in order to stay as competitive as they were?
- Law Schools will have to reframe and rebrand their answer to "Why should one attend it to begin with?";
- Make an effort to cross-educate its students in areas that interfere with the legal field in the daily course of business: e.g. technology, psychology, public speaking etc.
- Redefine their tuition;
- Transform their "one size fits all" career program and make it adaptable to every student's needs;
- Prepare students for careers related to the legal industry, but don't necessarily mean becoming a lawyer, etc.
What kind of changes do you want to see Law School make?