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Fostering And Assessing Law Student Teamwork And Team Leadership Skills, Neil Hamilton

Hofstra Law Review

Skills of teamwork and team leadership are foundational for many types of law practice, but how much instruction, supervised experience, assessment, and guided reflection on these two skills did each reader as a law student receive? Law schools' formal curricula, in the author's experience, historically have not given much attention to the development of these skills. There also has been little legal scholarship on how most effectively to foster law students' growth toward later stages of teamwork and team leadership. Legal education must do better.

What is the next step for the 58 law schools that have adopted a learning …