[MUSIC PLAYING] JOHANAN OTTENSOOSER: The legal industry is quite a traditional industry, so it's ripe for innovation and disruption. 

CHUCK WHITEHEAD: The Cornell Tech Law program is a disruptive program. It's disruptive because it teaches the law in a way that is just not taught in other law schools or other law programs. 

LEMAR MOORE: What differentiates it from other LLM programs is just how collaborative and cutting edge it is. 

JAIMIE WOLMAN: The law classes are not like any classes I've done ever before. They're much more practical. 

CHUCK WHITEHEAD: We are very much tied into Cornell University. I'm a professor at Cornell Law School, and the law school very much is focused on making sure that this program reflects the integrity, the quality of training that you'd get if you were up in Ithaca. 

JAYNA PATEL: We're having discussions, we're challenging each other. 

ELIZABETH RAGAVANIS: We do lots of things that are not very familiar for attorneys, things that are more tech related. 

CHUCK WHITEHEAD: We have our law students work together with business people and technologists as part of project teams. 

JOHANAN OTTENSOOSER: We work together with engineers, business people, and build products once every two to three-month cycle. 

SPEAKER: Our product, PainAway, is working to bridge the communication gap between physicians and patients with osteoarthritis. 

LEMAR MOORE: Our solution was a social media platform designed to create a stronger sense of community within [INAUDIBLE]. We're actually coding. We're actually participating and walking through with the engineers the process of building a platform or building a chat bot, for example. 

CHUCK WHITEHEAD: They don't simply learn how to represent clients or work with clients. They actually become part of the client. 

JAYNA PATEL: First, I was a little hesitant because I don't have a tech background. But because of the way the program is structured, I knew I'd be able to learn the law that I needed to know to be a good attorney in this field but simultaneously apply it. 

JAIMIE WOLMAN: Whether it's health tech, hospitality tech, fashion tech, ad tech is a big one, so we're just getting exposure to everything. 

LEMAR MOORE: Really, it just shows you how to attack the problem of representing a startup and getting a startup off the ground in the tech sphere from all angles. 

JEFF STEIN: It really helps them understand the intersection of law and business, which is important, and the intersection, again, of law in the technology sector, which is so pervasive these days. 

JAYNA PATEL: The greatest part about it is we all come from such different backgrounds. 

JOHANAN OTTENSOOSER: We have people who have come from litigation. We have people who come from intellectual property. 

LEMAR MOORE: I'm working with engineers. I'm working with folks in connective media, health care tech. 

JEFF STEIN: Having them talk day in and day out and participating with the technology and business folks is immensely important because it allows the graduates of this program, as young lawyers, to go out and really start to add value to their clients immediately, which is a major benefit to them and to the law firms that hire them. 

CHUCK WHITEHEAD: This is a completely different way of teaching law, and it's very specific to the type of client and the type of industry that we're working with. This is what makes it disruptive. 

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