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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 Jul 2010

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 …