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1970 Problems In Legal Education, John A. Bauman, Scott H. Bice, Stuart Brody, Thomas W. Christopher
1970 Problems In Legal Education, John A. Bauman, Scott H. Bice, Stuart Brody, Thomas W. Christopher
Cleveland State Law Review
Five problems in legal education, much discussed recently, were posed by the Editors of this Review to a number of administrative figures in the law school world. These questions were and are frankly difficult and controversial, but their answers are important to our system of legal education and to our society. Capsule answers given by these concerned legal education administrators are believed to be interesting and significant. Each is a personal rather than a representative opinion. Brief answers such as these, of course, are not expected to be, nor do they pretend to be, complete or profound. Their purpose is …
Experience-Based Teaching Methods In Legal Counseling, Robert T. Grismer, Thomas L. Shaffer
Experience-Based Teaching Methods In Legal Counseling, Robert T. Grismer, Thomas L. Shaffer
Cleveland State Law Review
Lawyers spend more time in their offices, in person-to-person encounters counseling troubled individuals, than in any other single area. The alternative to this is litigation, an expensive, inefficient, disfunctional process. Lawyers are counselors, in the most Sartrean sense of the word; whether they intend to be or not. Legal educators like Harrop Freeman and Andrew S. Watson, and legal psychologists such as Robert S. Redmount, have pointed out the inevitability of legal counseling in practice, and the lack of adequate preparation we give our students for their lives as counselors.
Clinical Experience And The College Work-Study Program, James T. Flaherty
Clinical Experience And The College Work-Study Program, James T. Flaherty
Cleveland State Law Review
Mark Twain is often quoted as the source of the remark that "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." This quotation is appropriately used for many problems exclusive of the weather. It can also be applied to law school clinical experience and financial aid problems. As applied to weather and clinical programs, the quotation is not always quite accurate, as another often-quoted saying has been equally applicable: "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." Without question, many candles have been lighted in the clinical area. It is the purpose of this …