Michele De Stefano
Legal Profession, Professor, Univ of Miami at IE Business School
Biography
IE Business School
Professor, author, speaker, and independent consultant and facilitator to law firms, corporate legal departments, and legal startups on innovation, collaborative creative problem solving, technology, culture creation, teaming, and cross-practice, cross-border initiatives.
Recently recognized as a Legal Rebel by the ABA, Michele is a Professor at the University of Miami School of law and the founder of LawWithoutWalls, a multi-disciplinary, international think-tank of over 1000 lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and law and business students who collaborate to create innovations at the intersection of law, business, and technology. She is also the co-founder and co-editor of the Compliance Elliance Journal, an open access e-journal that publishes engaging authors' works about cutting edge issues in compliance and ethics. Through her company MoveLaw, Michele runs bespoke, experiential learning workshops and programs that have a human-centered design approach and are designed to transform how lawyers collaborate with their clients to creatively solve problems and to create culture change..
Michele writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation. She is currently conducting research on Heads of Innovation at law firms and General Counsels at international corporations for her upcoming book, Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law. Michele speaks and serves as a consultant at law firms, legal departments, and legal startups on: Innovation, Teaming, Collaboration, Creative Problem Solving, Culture Creation, Compliance, and Technology.
In addition to teaching law at the University of Miami, she is Guest Faculty in Harvard Law School's Executive Education program and Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School’s, Center on the Legal Profession. Michele received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College.
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