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Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton Jan 1985

Is Thinking Like A Lawyer Enough?, Sallyanne Payton

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Every year that I attend meetings of the Law School's Committee of Visitors I ask members of the committee how the school might improve the training that we give to our graduates. Every year until this one the lawyers who have responded to this question have given a standard answer: the young lawyers are smart, they say, smarter in many respects than their seniors, but they don't know how to write well. This response usually leads to a discussion of the proper place of skills training in the law school curriculum; lawyers and professors engage in a little jousting over …

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A Matter Of Principle, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 237 (1985), Donald L. Beschle Jan 1985

A Matter Of Principle, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 237 (1985), Donald L. Beschle

UIC Law Review

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Legal Education For Non-Litigators: The Role Of The Law Schools And The Practicing Bar, Gerald Korngold Jan 1985

Legal Education For Non-Litigators: The Role Of The Law Schools And The Practicing Bar, Gerald Korngold

Articles & Chapters

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Preparation Of The Multistate Bar Examination: One Drafting Committee's Perspective, John W. Reed Jan 1985

Preparation Of The Multistate Bar Examination: One Drafting Committee's Perspective, John W. Reed

Articles

One who wants to know how the Multistate Bar Examination is created should begin by learning how the drafting committees work. My assignment is to describe the work of one of those committees: the Evidence Committee. Though there are differences among the six committees, they mostly are ones of style, and to learn how to operate in the evidence group is to understand the process generally.

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The Trouble With Lawyers (And Law Schools), Roger C. Cramton Jan 1985

The Trouble With Lawyers (And Law Schools), Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Two Views Of The Question: Are Law Schools Doing Their Job?, Terrance Sandalow, Robert B. Mckay Jan 1985

Two Views Of The Question: Are Law Schools Doing Their Job?, Terrance Sandalow, Robert B. Mckay

Other Publications

You have all heard the criticisms of lawyers, which I need not rehearse to this audience. Critics range from Aristotle, Jesus, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson to Jimmy Carter and Derek Bok; the cast of characters goes on and on. The criticism I like best, although in a way it is the most cutting of all, is what Samuel Johnson is alleged to have said about two centuries ago: "I do not like to speak ill of any man behind his back but I do believe he is a lawyer." It is always easy to bring people together, nonlawyers at least, …

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In Memoriam, Maurice Hitchcock Merrill 1897-1985, David Swank Dec 1984