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27 Clinical L. Rev. 309 (2020-2021)
Experiential Leadership: Teaching Collaboration through a Shared Leadership Model

handle is hein.journals/clinic27 and id is 319 raw text is: EXPERIENTIAL LEADERSHIP: TEACHING COLLABORATION THROUGH A SHARED LEADERSHIP MODEL PAUL RADVANY* Lawyers serve as leaders throughout our society, and it is more important than ever that these leaders are effective in order to address the country's challenges. Yet few lawyers have had any formal lead- ership training. Contrary to popular belief, leadership opportunities are not limited to those who serve in traditional positional leadership roles because leadership is increasingly thought of as an influence process. Thus, lawyers have many opportunities to lead, including leading their colleagues who are peers. As a result, the opportunities to lead can come early in a lawyer's career, even in law school. This Article provides a framework for students to learn and practice leadership skills while taking a clinic. The clinic is an ideal setting to teach leadership because so much of the work is accom- plished by teams in a collaborative manner. The author adopts a Shared Leadership Model of collaboration where students take turns leading and supporting each other throughout the semester. Clinical professors are ideally situated to provide leadership training as they are experts in teaching skills. As a result, by using the Shared Lead- ership Model, students will have the opportunity to learn and practice leadership skills in an experiential setting and be equipped to lead early in their careers. INTRODUCTION Recent events have demonstrated that effective leadership is more important than ever as our country seeks to address numerous challenges, including combating racism and fighting the pandemic and its effects, in order to create a more just society. Lawyers will need to learn new and innovative ways to lead not only our profession, but * Clinical Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. Professor Radvany teaches Lead- ership for Lawyers, the Securities Arbitration and Litigation Clinic, a judicial externship and trial practice. The author thanks the participants of the 2020 NYU Clinical Law Re- view Writer's Workshop, the facilitators for his group, Professors Carolyn Grose and Mar- garet Johnson, and his research assistants and former students for their very helpful contributions: Kimberly Ayudant, William Council, Jacqueline Hennelly, Larysa Kern, Nikol Oydanich, John Winton, and Zulkifl Zargar. He would also like to thank Professors David Gibbs, Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin, Susan Jones, Stephen Rispoli, Leah Witcher Jackson Teague and Anthony Thompson who were generous with their time when the au- thor began to focus on leadership pedagogy. 309

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