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A Response To Thomas Steele, Gary A. Munneke
A Response To Thomas Steele, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The problem with adjunct professors teaching a course in law practice management is that they really are not in a position to think and write about the big issues, the way that full-time faculty members are; they generally have full-time responsibilities in a law firm. The law practice management field loses something valuable when so many of its teachers are part time. Although these professors bring practical experience to the classroom, they do not contribute in a larger way to the law school curriculum as a whole, or to the literature of the legal profession.
Opening Remarks, Gary A. Munneke
Opening Remarks, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Interestingly, there is hardly any scholarship, and very little discussion, about the MacCrate Report outside of the clinical and skills programs in the traditional segments of legal education. I am not a clinician, although in the past I have taught courses in interviewing and counseling, and negotiations. I teach Law Practice Management and Professional Responsibility, which address professional skills and values; but I teach Torts as well, and my Torts colleagues, like teachers in other traditional subjects, really do not focus on these issues very much. So, one of the things I wanted to do with this symposium was to …
Legal Skills For A Transforming Profession, Gary A. Munneke
Legal Skills For A Transforming Profession, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The legal profession is undergoing dramatic changes that will drive a reformation in legal education. Legal educators must anticipate these changes to effectively prepare students for the practice of law in the twenty-first century. In order to be proficient practitioners, these students will require an expanded set of professional skills. Although the current legal skills paradigm was articulated by the American Bar Association MacCrate Task Force in 1991, it is time to reexamine legal skills with an eye toward preparing students to practice law in the new millennium. In Section II, this article examines trends in modern society and the …
Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg
Bringing The Practice To The Classroom: An Approach To The Professionalism Problem, Steven H. Goldberg
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The first section of this article presents a brief history and description of a professionalism movement that continues to urge law schools to do more to solve the “professionalism problem.” The second discusses legal education's failure to bring professionalism into the law school curriculum. The third describes the structure and teaching method of The Practice—a different kind of course about professionalism—while the fourth discusses the professionalism content of the course. I conclude with a plea for law faculty to direct their considerable talents toward collecting stories and data about the profession and creating material to facilitate law school courses that …
The City University Of New York Law School: An Insider's Report, Vanessa Merton
The City University Of New York Law School: An Insider's Report, Vanessa Merton
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Law School of the City University of New York ("CUNY") is an experiment in whether it is possible for lawyers to integrate their lives. It is not, primarily, an institution with a somewhat novel, somewhat derivative, approach to legal education (although it is that). It is a place where lawyers try to bridge the gap between love and work, those so often dichotomized constituents of life. At CUNY we are trying simultaneously to equip students for survival in the current legal system and to burden them with a critical perspective on that system; to do and think, to practice …