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Teaching Students How To "Think Like Lawyers": Integrating Socratic Method With The Writing Process, Mary Beth Beazley, Mary Kate Kearney

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Professor Beazley begins this article with an overview of how Socratic method and the writing process have traditionally been used and how they can be integrated in the legal writing course. The remainder of the article is devoted to an analysis of how this integration can be achieved in a five-step structured dialogue. She and her co-author identified these five steps as: (1) the assignment, or "instigating question"; (2) the student's written answer, in a series of "focused drafts" with "private memos"; (3) the teacher's written response, using Socratic questions whenever possible; (4) the conference, where the teacher can use …

Response, [To Kathryn Abrams, Hiring Woman], Thomas B. Mcaffee

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This article is a response to an article by Professor Kathryn Abram about the recruitment and hiring of women law professors. Professor McAffee confronts an issue that Professor Abrams does not—that of giving women a “preference” in hiring. Professor McAffee also adds to Professor Abrams’ reflections about the question of how law schools should go about hiring more women.

The Bar Exam Essay Maze: A Roadmap Through The Tangle, Bevery Mcqueary Smith

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Competency And Professionalism In Modern Litigation: The Role Of Law Schools, Ronald L. Carlson

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This Article opens with an historical analysis of the forces that stimulated the growth of trial practice training. It then shifts the focus to the current concern of the bar with raising the level of professionalism among lawyers. Part III discusses the role of law schools in helping their students meet both competency and professionalism challenges. To this end, Part III addresses (1) the need of any trial practice course to incorporate litigation ethics in a meaningful way, perhaps within the context of creative and challenging problems materials; and (2) the need for instructors in the field to add quality …

Law Schools: Where The Elite Meet To Teach (Transforming Legal Education: A Symposium Of Provocative Thought), Howard Glickstein

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Why Lawyers Should Be Allowed To Advertise: A Market Analysis Of Legal Services, Jeffrey W. Stempel

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In Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, a 1977 decision, the United States Supreme Court overturned the American Bar Association's (ABA) sixty-nine-year-old prohibition of advertising by lawyers. The Bates holding invalidated comprehensive bans on lawyer advertising but left unsettled the scope of permissible regulation. While the Bates Court found attorneys' price advertising to be protected speech under the first amendment, it also stated that false and misleading advertising could be prohibited. The majority expressly declined to consider the problems of advertising claims relating to the quality of legal services.

The organized bar's reaction to Bates has been hesitant and inconsistent. …