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Paying For Law School: Law Student Loan Indebtedness And Career Choices, Christopher J. Ryan Jr.
Paying For Law School: Law Student Loan Indebtedness And Career Choices, Christopher J. Ryan Jr.
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Legal Education Unbundled (And Rebundled), Megan Carpenter
Legal Education Unbundled (And Rebundled), Megan Carpenter
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This essay calls for an unbundling of legal education, much like the kind of unbundling we have seen in the cable, music, and print news media. It suggests that the standard legal education "bundle"-the generalized JD-is just one of many forms of legal education that can be packaged appropriately for today's legal education market needs.
Teaching And Assessing Soft Skills, Sophie M. Sparrow
Teaching And Assessing Soft Skills, Sophie M. Sparrow
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[excerpt from article] It is our job as legal educators to put our law graduates in the best position to succeed as new lawyers.1 And to succeed, law graduates must possess certain qualities or character traits that will enable them to thrive within legal organizations.2 Despite many calls for reform in legal education to include more practice-related skills, including professionalism, many law professors teaching doctrinal courses are reluctant to incorporate teaching professional competencies and behaviors.3 They are unwilling to do so even though they have long decried students’ lack of professional skills.4 Professors complain that students show up late for …