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21 Mar 2009, 4:11 am
I expect more to come.I believe to practice criminal defense a newly minted law student should be required to do one of three things: be a prosecutor, be a public defender, "clerk" with a practicing criminal defense lawyer who's been practicing criminal defense at least five years.That though, is a pipe dream. [read post]
21 Mar 2009, 12:11 am
Second, it takes law students three years to learn the law -- or at least a semester to learn a specific subject like torts -- and yet juries are expected to understand the law after just one brief lecture from the judge. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 4:32 pm
(Chapter 18, p. 236).Note the emphasis on there always being more work to do in a typical law practice. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 8:35 am
As I wrote recently, US News and World Report’s rankings of law schools are determined largely by the LSAT scores and undergraduate grade point averages of the students each law school admits even though those scores and averages bear no correlation to success as a lawyer; rather, they correlate only to success in law school, which, again, bears no meaningful correlation to success as a lawyer (as would not surprise most lawyers but, I would guess, would… [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 11:28 pm
I wrote about it here last August.One thing we ALL agree on is that law school does not equip young associates for the day-to-day challenges they will face when practicing law. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 6:40 am
  But they're reasons why OER are important to the future of HE. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 8:35 am
I don't intend to shill for tout  the student law reviews, but the talk that peer reviewed journals solve the "network" effects by being blind seems naive. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 6:10 am
With 150 K in debt from a shitlaw school and no experience to practice law anyway, why the fuck is anyone going to retain you in the first place? [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 9:50 am
Quick, name your favorite customer service class from law school. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 6:37 pm by Kenneth Vercammen NJ Law Blog
Elder Law, Estate Planning & Probate- New ideas to expand & excel your practice Sat. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 10:16 am
In my case, it's social media, paralegal and law news, practice tips, good writing, best blogs and yes, dry wit delivered with a short, brief punch, or as my 12-year old likes to call it, "BAM"! [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 7:44 am by Peter Marx
"It's really forced us to refocus on the kinds of placements we're making," said Steve Nelson, managing principal for the law and government affairs practice of executive search firm The McCormick Group. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 5:18 pm
The opposite occurs in the case of lawyers as they work they way through law school and the practice of law. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 10:59 am
Regulatory offenses don't have individual victims; they're intended to encourage people to abide by the law in ways that contribute to the greater social good (like ensuring that food isn't contaminated). [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 12:50 am
But there was little controversy among Howard students surrounding Thomas' visit, according to one first-year law student. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 2:49 pm
  What transactional learning can do, though, is give clarity and transparency about aims and activities for both students and staff - ‘this is what we're aiming for, staff can say to students, and this is the arena of values, concepts, applications and tools where you are responsible for learning'. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 8:57 am
  To add to the gap between law school and legal practice, the principal criterion underlying the rankings on which law schools and applicants rely to rate the quality of a law school is the median LSAT score of the school’s students. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 11:09 pm
If you can't find one, you may be looking at Student's "Problem Invention".4. [read post]