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Tightening Clinical Training : Improvements In Legal Education Support Programs : Final Report, Student Bar Association Symposium On Clinical Legal Education, University Of Georgia School Of Law
Tightening Clinical Training : Improvements In Legal Education Support Programs : Final Report, Student Bar Association Symposium On Clinical Legal Education, University Of Georgia School Of Law
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Within the last decade, Langdell's case method of legal education has ceased to be the exclusive means of instruction in the Nation's law schools. The increasing support of the traditional academic curriculum at Georgia with seminars, simulation and burgeoning clinical programs clearly demonstrates that legal education here is no longer inextricably bound to the case method.
Underlying the recent trend among law schools to revitalize the academic curriculum with supplementary practical experience is the growing realization of a public obligation to produce technically competent and professional lawyers by graduation. Defining clinical legal education as "lawyer-client work by a law student, …