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Too Long Neglected: Expanding Curricular Support For Public Interest Lawyering, Louis S. Rulli
Too Long Neglected: Expanding Curricular Support For Public Interest Lawyering, Louis S. Rulli
Cleveland State Law Review
In short, as the academy sends more students than ever to corporate law firms, law schools need to do more to cultivate, nourish, and prepare the next generation of public interest lawyers. By making public interest lawyering more prominent in the curriculum, and offering students greater opportunity to work with faculty and students of similar interest on public interest issues, the academy can take an important step forward toward helping students overcome feelings of isolation and survive the formidable obstacles that discourage public interest careers. This article describes one such course, Lawyering in the Public Interest, which is offered as …
Law School Never Stops, Robert L. Clare
Law School Never Stops, Robert L. Clare
Cleveland State Law Review
In the past, law school graduates were molded into lawyers through along period of training. However, the modern legal community - law firms, law staffs of corporations and government agencies, bar associations, continuing legal education institutes and law schools - has begun to implement a whole new philosophy of legal training predicated upon the direct teaching of legal practice skills rather than the experience orientated process.