Our Mission
The Future of the Profession Lab tackles the most significant challenges facing the American legal profession. The lab uses a human-centered design approach to problem-solving with a collaborative, interdisciplinary model. Our priorities are driven by users – the audiences we serve - who need improvements in the legal system. Our goal is scalable impact and generational change.
Learn more about the Future of the Profession Lab’s launch here
Our Pillars
Human-centered design
- FPL will incorporate users – the audiences we want to serve better – in all aspects of our approach to problem-solving
- We want to improve the legal system for both users and providers
Interdisciplinary partnerships
- FPL will partner across disciplines and across institutions, with students, lawyers and other professionals, people with justice problems, and other innovators
- We will collaborate with existing legal problem-solving labs to grow solutions
- We will incorporate students from Penn Carey law and from across the University in all our work
Scaling for impact
- FPL will set priorities based on the potential for impact, with the goal of seeding long-term change in the legal system
- We’ll focus on the important and the scalable
- We’ll let the market drive our work, rather than our own perceptions and preferences
