J. Kim Wright's blog

I was a guest on Mali Rowan Presents Restorative Justice show recently.  Here is the audio recording of that interview:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Dialogue/KimWright+Cutting+Edge+Law.mp3?AWSAcce...

The dust is still settling from our event in Colorado a couple of weeks ago.  Leaders and activists in the entire movement came together from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday at lunch to meet each other, share ideas, and create next steps.

Cutting Edge Law is sponsoring a Legal Leadership Summit in Manitou Springs, Colorado through Tuesday. There are about three dozen of us, a cross-section of leaders from many walks of the legal life: practicing lawyers, judges, legal educators; and a couple of interdisciplinary professionals. This is a quick report from the event.

It was a GREAT day. We used the World Cafe model to discuss several questions:

What are you proud of?

What challenges “at the edge” have you had?

What support would be helpful to you?

One of the advantages of traveling around the country is that I get to meet a lot of diverse people.  Add to that, a Facebook friends list of over 800 people from many chapters of my life.  My circle includes Tea Party and Libertarians to Socialists and Communists.  They are Atheists to Fundamental Christians to Tibetan Buddhists. Some dropped out of high school while others have the highest degrees. Men, women, straight, gay, black, white, brown, from many countries, with many world views, it is a broad cross-section of people, I think.

It has been two years since the Cutting Edge Law web site was officially launched. And what a two years! We've helped bring a lot of ideas into the mainstream of law. Publishing a best-selling book at the American Bar Association, the 5,000 mile book tour, new interviews, and several new CLE programs have kept us busy.

As we begin the third year, we're working on a lot of different projects.

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