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This document summarizes a keynote speech about the changing legal services industry and the role of technology. The speaker notes that while headlines claim it is a bad time to go to law school or be a lawyer, this is an exciting time for those interested in how the law impacts people and society. There has been a huge increase in events and programs focused on legal technology and the business of law. Major investments in legal tech startups are also fueling changes. While some argue that law is too "special" to change, the speaker believes law is special but must also change to better serve people and address problems, where technology can help solve certain issues. Lawyers and technologists need to work together to find solutions.
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Clarissa made the presentation on behalf of the Family Law Practitioners Association of Qld.
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1. Long before John Mitby established himself as a
construction attorney, he built air strips and roads in
Southeast Asia.
Just after earning his undergraduate degree, Mitby
was on an ROTC commission with the Army Corps of
Engineers, during which he oversaw a construction
company building projects for special forces in Thailand
and Cambodia.
“The one good thing about being in the construction
business,” he said, “is, at some point, you can sit back and
look and see what a company has done or been a part of.”
The experience shaped his interest in construction
law, and when he graduated in 1971 from the University
of Wisconsin Law School, he said, it was obvious his
practice would focus on architecture, engineering and
construction.
“With that background,” Mitby said, “it was a natural
fit.”
A former managing partner with Axley Brynelson LLP,
Madison, Mitby at the start of the year became a senior
partner at the Madison law firm Hurley Burish & Stanton
SC. He has spent the past 40 years working with start-
ups, looking over contracts, meditating disputes and
helping juries understand everything from construction
defects to on-site accidents.
“A construction practice can be overwhelming,” Mitby
said. “There’s a lot of people involved — the owners,
the contractors, the subcontractor, the architect — and
the government regulations, all the different aspects that
you have to feel comfortable with.”
An added complication is clients’ expectations for
quick answers, he said.
“You don’t have the advantage of 10 or 15 years ago,
when something would be faxed to you or mailed, and
you had time to get back to them,” Mitby said. “Nowa-
days, they call and they have an expectation that you’re
intimately familiar with AIA contracts or AGC contracts
or you’ve seen this problem before, whether it’s an
OSHA problem or a subcontracting issue.
“You don’t have the advantage of saying, ‘Can I see
the file? Let me do the research and get back to you.’”
But his respect for the construction process is what
keeps him interested, Mitby said.
“It’s fun to work with people who are doing things …
the supervisors and the bricklayers and the people who
do the drywall and the plumbers and the electricians, all
those disciplines work together to create something,” he
said. “I’m not there on site doing it, but I’m there at the
beginning and the end of the tunnel.”
Wisconsin Law Journal: What would you change
about the construction industry?
John Mitby: I think the biggest thing is the contracts. I
think there’s way, way too many differences in contracts.
As a result, we’ve got way too many court cases that
really don’t help, I don’t think, in terms of solving prob-
lems like indemnification clauses, delayed damages and
the economic-loss doctrine. The legal concepts I don’t
think have kept up with the practical world. There’s way
too much time and cost being spent on the contractual
side, unnecessarily, with court cases and legislation and
insurance law. They have made contractual obligations
not consistent with what’s really going on or should go
on. And I’m not sure it’s cost-effective.
WLJ: What job would you not like to do?
Mitby: I guess I really would not like to have the re-
sponsibility inside the company to deal with personnel-
type issues. I think that’s complicated and hard to do.
Personnel in any construction company is a challenge.
WLJ: What is the most useful thing you’ve learned
since starting your job?
Mitby: I think patience. Patience is extremely
important. And what separates a good lawyer from a
great lawyer, assuming intelligence and integrity and
the judgment you have to have, is timing. Timing is so
important. You can be absolutely dead right on what
should be done. But is the timing correct to put forth
that answer or proposition, or is it just the opposite?
WLJ: What do you wish you’d learned sooner?
Mitby: I think the hard part is experience. You can’t
teach experience. You have to experience things. At one
point in time, I thought to be a good construction lawyer,
I had to know all there was about contracts and all there
was about how to try a lawsuit. Then somebody said,
‘You’ve got to know about insurance law, and you’ve got
to know how all the disciplines work together and the
mediation aspect.’ To be able to sit down and, basically,
when you handle a complex case, pull it all together, it’s
like a Clue course. It’s like continuing legal education.
WLJ: What would your colleagues be surprised to
find out about you?
Mitby: Because I had two daughters, I was always
very passionate about sports. I played a little bit of
basketball at the University of Wisconsin, and I followed
men’s basketball and men’s football. When I had my
daughters, I spent a lot of time with all-city swimming,
helping put that together, tri-county basketball, getting
girls hockey in the high schools. And I spent 10 years
or so with the Olympic Development program with girls’
soccer in the state of Wisconsin.
— Jessica Stephen
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