Ep. 16 | Michael Bloom — Financial Crisis Grad Becomes Accidental Law School Prof and then Builds Contracts Teaching Software — And is Law School Useful?

Winding Paths

Michael Bloom is the CEO of Praktio, a platform that helps junior lawyers at law firms learn how to draft contracts, which is used by over 50 of the AM Law 200. Michael graduated from Yale Law into the Financial Crisis and took a voluntary deferral from Sidley Austin.

Rather than twiddling his thumbs, Michael found a role teaching a clinical contracts course at U of Chicago Law School. That course turned into coauthoring a textbook on contracts and ultimately with some hops and jumps and more hops over to launching Praktio.

If you're graduating law school now or worried about what's happening in the current economic environment, you might take comfort from the fact that often what we're not expecting ends up taking us down paths that prove to be fruitful and that we may not have anticipated to begin with.

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In the meantime, may you walk your own winding path well.
Joseph Gerstel