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In a world where lawyers have been displaced by technology, data scientists and policy experts, law schools are looking for ways to educate lawyers to make them more relevant in today’s world. After all, the survival of law schools depends on placing students in jobs, so they need to teach them marketable skills. Hence, the development of the Delta Model, a new competency model for the 21st century lawyer. The brainchild of five legal industry experts from diverse backgrounds, the Delta Model includes three categories of skills critical to the success of lawyers in today’s world: core knowledge, business operations (which includes knowledge of technology, data analysis, and project management). and personal efficacy, which includes traits such as entrepreneurial mindset, emotional intelligence, and personality.
Although the Delta Model is a new model (and indeed it is to most parts of the legal industry), it describes what successful small firm and sole proprietorship lawyers have been doing for decades. We are responsible for mastering our core practice area, leveraging technology and workflow to work within our tight budgets, and often helping clients through not only the legal aspects, but also the personal and emotional aspects of their case. . In fact, I wrote about the small, solo competitive advantage more than a decade ago in my post: Solos Do Everything Biglaw Only Does Backwards and in High Heels:
In many ways, Biglaw is like Fred Astaire – both are great at what they do. But don’t forget, in many cases, just like Ginger Rogers, we singles do everything Bigelow does, only in reverse (since we’re often on the other side), in high heels (from opinion, we often falter when trying to get the most out of our clients’ tighter budgets) and with the real live humans we’re accountable to.
Singles and smalls are worth the Delta model because we couldn’t survive without it. Singles who lack basic skills find themselves vulnerable to complaints and wrongdoing. Singles without operational intelligence either work 24/7 or routinely exceed client budgets. And singles who lack personal skills will be hard-pressed to find referrals or obtain favorable testimonials from clients.
But I’m not so sure that others in the profession really understand the value of the delta model. And without buy-in, the model won’t have much success. I also question how much of the Delta Model can be taught in the classroom by professors who are mostly just grades and view biz operations and personal effectiveness as lesser skills. Or, law schools could do more to share the experience of small, solo lawyers with the successful firms that are, after all, the living, breathing model of the Delta Model.
