Add to ORKGOur symposium today asks the question: Is there a gap in lawyer training to be narrowed? My answer is: Probably. Is it any greater than the gap that existed twenty or thirty years ago? I think not. Law schools are graduating women and men well prepared to begin the practice of law. True, there is much that new law school graduates do not yet know. But in a short time—two to three years—most new law graduates gain the skills and substantive knowledge needed to be successful
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This article synthesizes major points in the October 2012 symposium of the University of Missouri Sc...
Legal education is taking on new meaning. Law schools areentering upon a new development. The classi...
Although historically slow to change, law schools are now facing enormous pressure from educators, s...
Every year that I attend meetings of the Law School\u27s Committee of Visitors I ask members of the ...
This law school symposium on the Twenty-First Century Lawyer reflects a fundamental shift in the foc...
In the past, law school graduates were molded into lawyers through along period of training. However...
Does clinical legal education meet the test of necessity? An affirmative answer is here suggested fo...
The employment gap for law school graduates is well-documented. Almost 40% of 2015 law graduates did...
Most legal educators reject the premise that the primary mission of the law school is to train law s...
The Great Recession has caused many new attorneys to question their decisions to go to law school. T...
To answer the question posed by the conveners of this symposium, of course there is a gap between le...
These are challenging times to be a lawyer. They may even be transformational times. Recent upheaval...
After briefly recounting some milestones in the history of legal education, and especially efforts t...
US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently asked if a law degree should require seven years of c...
Welcome to the “Future of Law,” a new column that will appear regularly in the Michigan Bar Journal....
This article synthesizes major points in the October 2012 symposium of the University of Missouri Sc...
Legal education is taking on new meaning. Law schools areentering upon a new development. The classi...
Although historically slow to change, law schools are now facing enormous pressure from educators, s...