The picture was meant to jolt the assembled crowd of legal educators. It showed the four members of Swedish supergroup ABBA, clad in their signature 1970s pop star regalia: tall platform boots, capes, sparkle galore. To put a finer point on it, Legal OnRamp Chief Executive Officer Paul Lippe played a snippet of ABBA’s hit, “Waterloo.”
“We don’t want to end up in our Waterloo,” he warned as the photo loomed over the crowd on a projection screen; if law schools don’t adapt to changes in the legal industry, they will look as outdated and ridiculous as ABBA now appears to young people.
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