Sentences with phrase «law school curricula»

Increased choice in law school curriculum divorced from a sense of what practice will in fact entail will do little to serve students and much to serve a faculty with little interest in law.

This means an examination and reform of law school curriculum with the cooperation of law schools and law societies.

It seems pretty obvious, as email is undoubtedly the most prevalent form of legal writing, but it seems to be missed out in most law school curricula of which I am aware.

• Today's workplace demands skills that the traditional law school curriculum does not cover.

After all, it's one of the many things not covered in the basic law school curriculum.

Also, the law society has a power of approval of law school curriculum.

He acknowledged that compliance issues aren't on most law school curriculum but that in - house lawyers need those kinds of credentials.

The forces shaping legal services delivery — the very forces that will shape professional opportunities for today's law students — are not adequately addressed by the traditional law school curriculum.

However, we would be looking at changing law school curriculum world - wide since so many people studying in foreign jurisdictions come to Canada to practice.

Opportunities to blend technology into a class occur weekly in core law school curriculum as more and more cases have disputes over unsettled law on technical matters at their center, rely on technology for rapid adjudication or require technical knowledge to understand and properly practice that area of law.

Violence prevention and threat management should become topics of discussion and study within law school curricula, ensuring that new lawyers enter the field with their eyes fully open to the threat of violence and a range of best practice security precautions.

Does Law School Curriculum Affect Bar Examination Passage?

A subset of the findings highlighted innovative law school curriculum and legal incubators as an entry point to introduce these ideals.

This degree could serve as a prerequisite for law school, covering such skills as legal research, legal writing, the US and comparative legal systems, and perhaps even the entire first year law school curriculum.

Are law school rankings responsible for the paucity of law school curriculum offerings and counseling services that would help lawyers start law firms straight out of school?

Although law school curriculums are starting to include more practical skill classes (which I recommend), the majority of classes are substantive, not skills - based.

The publication of casebooks — with a captive audience requiring little marketing because they're set as required texts by the teachers who wrote them — is extremely profitable for law publishers, with ever more publishers publishing ever more casebooks on ever more specialized topics from the expanding law school curriculum.

But blog coverage of the Spitzer scandal suggests that Spitzer, if not a law unto himself, offers fodder for an entire law school curriculum unto itself.

The Clinical Legal Education Association agrees, unsurprisingly, and has petitioned the ABA to add 15 hours of practice - based instructions to the required law school curriculum.

I don't agree that «business development skills» should be taught as part of the formal law school curriculum — unless one starts from the premise that law schools are first and foremost trade schools.

The focus of the conference was where law school curricula are, should be, or could be headed.

Compassion, empathy, conflict resolution, and ability to work together on a team are not in the typical law school curriculum (except perhaps clinics), but they are critical to the healthy practice of law.

While it is true that this information is less nuanced and complete as your local law school curriculum, it can more often than not «get the job done» for someone looking for a quick fix.

When you get right down to it, your average law school curriculum is basically half Intro to Law and half Bar Exam Prep.

There is little indication that the change is related to any alteration in the process by which judges are selected or to the growing salience of international law school curricula in recent years.

It's an area that could be of great interest to budding lawyers because they've grown up understanding the complexity of technology, says Nevin, adding she would like to see it integrated into law school curriculum.

«Take Ontario for example, the law society really hasn't had a serious look at law school curriculums for 50 years,» says Doug Ferguson, director of Western University's Community Legal Services clinic.

A participant suggested that the Law Society use its seat on the Federation of Law Societies to encourage the inclusion of cultural competency and diversity awareness as part of the core law school curriculum.

One wouldn't know any of that from most law school curricula, however.

Innovative law school curriculums that incorporate the use of technology to promote legal access.

Gender and domestic violence are such complex issues that training in the competencies to deal with them must occur in various ways, curricular and extracurricular, mandatory and optional, throughout the three year law school curriculum.

The very phrase «thinking like a lawyer» highlights the gulf between the traditional law school curriculum and life as a practicing attorney: the transition from «thinking» to «doing.»

«The Carnegie Report has sparked major changes in law school curriculums in the US, and I think it's time we launched a debate on legal education reform here in Canada.»

Marketing basics are rarely part of law school curriculums.

Today's law school curriculum has a strongly theoretical focus.

Instead, what I want to focus on is Simon Canick «s * recent article, «Infusing Technology Skills into the Law School Curriculum.»

He suggests that the following key technologies would do well to find their way into the law school curriculum:

What should a law school curriculum seek to accomplish in light of the school's obligations to its students, its university, the pursuit of knowledge, the profession, and society as a whole?