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Adding Legal Research To The Bar Exam: What Would The Exercise Look Like?, Patrick J. Meyer
Adding Legal Research To The Bar Exam: What Would The Exercise Look Like?, Patrick J. Meyer
Akron Law Review
Various authors have criticized the current bar exam format for not testing law practice skills. This is in spite of the ground-breaking MacCrate Report, the seminal publication of the practice-ready movement, which nearly 30 years ago listed ten fundamental practice skills. One of these ten Fundamental Lawyering Skills is legal research, which is still not tested on bar exams. The focus of this article will be on deficiencies pertaining to a lack of legal research readiness in the practice of law. My proposal is to add an interactive legal research exercise to the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), requiring applicants …
Forty-Two: The Hitchiker's Guide To Teaching Legal Research To The Google Generation, Ian Gallacher
Forty-Two: The Hitchiker's Guide To Teaching Legal Research To The Google Generation, Ian Gallacher
Akron Law Review
This article is a meditation on contemporary legal research and possible changes in the way the subject should be taught. Absent from this article is any mention of the importance of teaching students about the mechanical workings of the various tools lawyers use to conduct legal research. It seems so resoundingly obvious that law schools should be doing this that any discussion of the issue would appear contrived and sterile. The much more interesting, and more difficult, questions to answer are what else law students should learn, who should teach it to them, and why they should learn it. These …