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Legal Ethics In China: Reflections On The Formation Of Professional Identity, Judith Mcmorrow

Judith A. McMorrow

The Chinese legal profession has grown rapidly in the last 30 years. This talk discussed the challenge of creating norms of attorney conduct (legal ethics) in a fragile and young legal system. The second part of the talk used ongoing research on the formation of professional identity.

Conference Co-Organizer And Moderator, What Legal Employers Want... And Really Need, Elisabeth Keller

Elisabeth Keller

Planned, organized, and moderated panel at conference of over 50 law faculty and legal employers to address the question of what makes a lawyer "practice-ready" and how the legal academy and legal employers should allocate this responsibility.

Nuts And Bolts Of Teaching--Using A Range Of Teaching Methodologies In The Classroom, Jane Gionfriddo

Jane Kent Gionfriddo

No abstract provided.

Lessons From China, Judith Mcmorrow

Judith A. McMorrow

No abstract provided.

Proposal For Establishing A Work Group For Distance Education To Explore Learning Outcomes, William Byrnes

William H. Byrnes

No abstract provided.

Reading And Writing Workshop/Road To Law School, Tanya Pierce

Tanya Pierce

No abstract provided.

Global Law School: Teaching/Studying Abroad, Bringing It Home, Malinda Seymore

Malinda L. Seymore

Attendee Discussion: How Should Legal Educators And Law Schools Respond To These Changes?, Michael Kelly, Robert Rhee, Gillian Hadfield, Jeanne Charn, William Henderson, Clark Cunningham

Robert Rhee

Michael Kelly. "The Gaping Hole in American Legal Education." Major changes that have occurred in law during the last three decades (such as intense competition and phenomenal increases in compensation in the private sector, and consolidation in law practices of all kinds) have been driven by tightly managed and strongly focused practice organizations. But understanding how organizations function is not part of law school curricula or pedagogy or the agenda of those who would reform legal education. Equipping law students for a career in law in the 21st Century now requires understanding organizations, whether lawyers represent them, oppose them or …

Legal Ethics In China, Judith Mcmorrow

Judith A. McMorrow

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Teaching Tomorrow’S Lawyers To Avoid Legal Malpractice, Susan Fortney

Susan S. Fortney

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Making A Case For Legal Writing Instruction... Worldwide, Diane Edelman

Diane Penneys Edelman

This article discusses the merits of teaching legal analysis and writing and of developing a legal writing program at a faculty of law, and recommends that law faculties around the world incorporate this subject. Once absent from the American law school curriculum, this subject has become a required subject in all American law schools over the past 25+ years. The article suggests steps for implementing a legal writing course or program, and offers a variety of resources for doing so.