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Training The Trial Lawyer, William Burns Lawless

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Speaking at the dedication of the Stanford Law School in 1950, Mr. Justice Robert Jackson observed that "the unsolved problem of legal education is how to equip the law student for work at the bar of the court. . . ." He told his audience that the greatest opportunity for improvement in the legal profession, and where it is now most vulnerable on the score of performance, is its work in the trial courtroom. "It seems to me, that while the scholarship of the bar has been improving, the art of advocacy has been declining."

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Notre Dame Law School--The Future, William Burns Lawless

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Dean William Lawless of the University of Notre Dame Law School summarizes the future for the Law School in this article. Dean Lawless states that it will be Christian in tone, it will stress moral values, it will be highly competitive, it will supply the profession with highly skilled lawyers, legislators, legal scholars, public defenders, and judges; in a word, it will train men and women who really care about the shape and structure of this country. The famous Notre Dame will-to-win will stir in the minds of its magnificent alumni practicing at the bar.