Add to ORKGIs it possible for law schools to teach students to do good? Should they try? Do law schools have a role to play in addressing the crisis in legal services for the poor? If so, what role? Our society is one in which the great majority of citizens of modest means cannot afford the services of a lawyer in resolving their legal problems. A decade ago a national survey found that approximately eighty percent of the legal problems of the poor were handled without legal assistance. Surely, recent reductions and restrictions in government-funded legal services can only have made the situation worse. Only a small handful of law school graduates seek and accept legal services jobs upon graduation. Very few of the graduates who enter private practice...
Many articles have been written focusing on the benefits that the law students receive from particip...
Legal education reformers have long argued that law school clinics address two related needs: first,...
Law schools should recognize and maximize their opportunity to work in public service. Law schools ...
Civil legal services in the United States are increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible. Although t...
The crisis of the university has finally affected the law school. Its symptoms are evident to all: t...
This author argues that poverty advocates who are willing to carefully attend to their law school’s ...
Legal education plays an important role in socializing the next generation of lawyers, judges, and p...
All lawyers\u27 codes of professional ethics in the United States expect members of the bar to perfo...
Law school is more than a professional training ground. Our graduates play a special and privileged ...
Legal education is taking on new meaning. Law schools areentering upon a new development. The classi...
Some lawyers are in the position where they would find it difficult to afford to hire themselves if ...
Over the past 50 years, law schools have seen an amazing increase in the diversity of its students. ...
Millions of low and middle-income Americans face legal problems every day. Most cannot afford an att...
It is now commonly accepted that law schools are graduating students who are under-prepared for prac...
A breath of fresh air has blown into many law schools because of the national antipoverty program in...
Many articles have been written focusing on the benefits that the law students receive from particip...
Legal education reformers have long argued that law school clinics address two related needs: first,...
Law schools should recognize and maximize their opportunity to work in public service. Law schools ...
Civil legal services in the United States are increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible. Although t...
The crisis of the university has finally affected the law school. Its symptoms are evident to all: t...
This author argues that poverty advocates who are willing to carefully attend to their law school’s ...
Legal education plays an important role in socializing the next generation of lawyers, judges, and p...
All lawyers\u27 codes of professional ethics in the United States expect members of the bar to perfo...
Law school is more than a professional training ground. Our graduates play a special and privileged ...
Legal education is taking on new meaning. Law schools areentering upon a new development. The classi...
Some lawyers are in the position where they would find it difficult to afford to hire themselves if ...
Over the past 50 years, law schools have seen an amazing increase in the diversity of its students. ...
Millions of low and middle-income Americans face legal problems every day. Most cannot afford an att...
It is now commonly accepted that law schools are graduating students who are under-prepared for prac...
A breath of fresh air has blown into many law schools because of the national antipoverty program in...
Many articles have been written focusing on the benefits that the law students receive from particip...
Legal education reformers have long argued that law school clinics address two related needs: first,...
Law schools should recognize and maximize their opportunity to work in public service. Law schools ...