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Prefatory Remark, Robert B. Mckay
Prefatory Remark, Robert B. Mckay
Cleveland State Law Review
Does clinical legal education meet the test of necessity? An affirmative answer is here suggested for the following reasons. First, skills training is an important adjunct to analytical training and is nowhere better provided than in appropriately designed clinical programs. Second, neither students nor prospective employers should be satisfied with a legal education that omits reference to the practical world of skills training. Third, contrary to the common belief of earlier generations, skills training can be better accomplished through the systematic training programs of the law schools than through the more haphazard training of law firms and other law offices.
Prefatory Remark, Louis M. Brown
Prefatory Remark, Louis M. Brown
Cleveland State Law Review
The Devitt Committee Report recommends that the American Bar Association re-examine its accreditation standards with a view towards requiring each law school to provide trial advocacy training. In my opinion, it is improper to emphasize trial advocacy to the exclusion of other means of solving disputes. The Devitt Report gives not the slightest hint of or reference to negotiated settlements, arbitration or mediation as methods to assist in settling disagreements. The Committee, by apparently accepting without dissent the Report's stated objective, ignored the broader social purposes to be served by requiring law schools to emphasize skills training in general.
Why Don't Law Schools Teach Law Students How To Try Law Suits, Edward J. Devitt
Why Don't Law Schools Teach Law Students How To Try Law Suits, Edward J. Devitt
Cleveland State Law Review
As chairman of the Devitt Committee I was exposed to a wide range of views concerning the issue of the quality of trial advocacy in this country's courts. That experience made apparent the seriousness of the problem of inadequate trial advocacy and the necessity for appropriate remedies. The cure for this lies primarily with the law schools. What is needed is a fundamental change in attitude among American law schools. This commentary will establish that these pragmatic views have the support of logic, history and the available hard evidence.
Approaches And Stumbling Blocks To Integration Of Skills Training And The Traditional Methods Of Teaching Law, W. Noel Keyes
Approaches And Stumbling Blocks To Integration Of Skills Training And The Traditional Methods Of Teaching Law, W. Noel Keyes
Cleveland State Law Review
Having practiced for many years before becoming a law professor, the author felt compelled to look at the problem of how to integrate practical training into traditional methods for teaching law. It was soon evident that the solution could not be found if one took a pejorative attitude, dwelling on negative terminology such as "anti-intellectualism," but only if it was recognized that law study has little meaning without a concurrent study of its practice. This commentary will propose a mode for accomplishing this integration.