Sentences with phrase «law school education»

That's despite the fact that basically everyone acknowledges that the current form of law school education doesn't do much to educate lawyers on practicing law.

They're filling a huge gap in law school education, namely getting students ready to actually, you know, practice law!

Eligible Loans: All need - based federal, university and educational loans for law school education are eligible for inclusion in the Program.

Depending on your living expenses, a typical law school education today costs upwards of $ 200,000 — give or take a few thousand.

Forty - five - year - old (Gen X) Jarvis has been paying her student loan debt of $ 125,000 from her Duke University law school education since graduating in 1998.

Dan's index moves us beyond generalizations and broad rebukes, and takes a data - driven approach to analyzing which law schools have undertaken significant efforts to align law school education with the knowledge and competencies that students need for long - term career success.

That said, it's time to move beyond generalizations and broad rebukes, which fail to recognize a contingent of law schools that have undertaken significant efforts to align law school education with the knowledge and competencies that students need for long - term career success.

I got through almost my entire law school education without actually seeing an entire contract (snippets in Supreme Court judgments don't count), a Notice of Civil Claim, or a land title document.

Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice agrees that law school education needs to change, and focus on what ought to be its mission: preparing students to become lawyers.

After much controversy, an agreement was reached in 1957 whereby university law school education became a requirement.

So, OHLS is out «to get it,» in spite of the fact that your taxes and mine subsidize law school education.

I fear that regardless of the outcome of these efforts at curriculum reform this fundamental breakdown will continue and the complaints about law school education will continue as they have unabated for over 100 years.

Titus, who rejected his Harvard Law School education after reading the work of R.J. Rushdoony, the late founder of Christian Reconstructionism, was moved to exercise what he believes is a «dominion mandate» to «restore the Bible to legal education.»

The ABA, not to mention academia, should invest time and resources on reinventing law school education and accreditation standards.

«The goal of the project is to help establish cyber clinics as a permanent part of U.S. law school education,» Professor Staudt said.

Educational providers should consider creating parallel programs in areas such as legal technology, in college or other environments, or incorporated into law school education, to educate and train new streams of legal service providers which may include lawyers.

Certificate of Qualification for Canadian Law School Education / Training Equivalency, National Committee on Accreditation at the University of Ottawa

• Anticipating the demands of a changing legal profession • Fostering a diverse and inclusive community • Increasing our scholarly impact • Deepening our commitment to service • Bringing Fordham Law School to new audiences • Enhancing the value of a Fordham Law School education

Call it a more temperate look (more temperate than that of a now retired Canadian law professor — already noted on this forum) at law school education, albeit in the United States rather than Canada.

After the first year of a regular law school education, which will ensure that students have learned fundamental skills, the second and third years should definitely be geared towards more practical and hands - on learning.

Lakehead is in a unique position and fills a geographical gap in law school education.

Or does it make more sense to explore ways to decrease the cost of law school education, find different ways to require law schools to provide quality classes, and to use the third year to prepare students for the real world?

That some 70 % of this significant increase is from Canadians shows a significant demand for law school education that was not previously met.

This should include authorizing bar admission for people whose preparation may be other than the traditional four - years of college plus three years of classroom - based law school education, and licensing persons other than holders of a J.D. to deliver limited legal services.

I had gotten a law school education by osmosis, and one of the first things law students learn is «Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.»

Walking away from a law school education to start up the now successful juice company Suja Juice was frightening, but it's a choice she'll never regret.

If you want a law school education on the hundreds of code sections laws that apply, start at the local Law Library and read the California Penal Code books.

Increasing numbers of Duke Law students incur significant debt to finance their law school education.

I paid for my undergraduate and law school education and borrowed $ 31,000.

Because law degrees take less time to complete than medical or dental school degrees, more private student loan lenders offer students options for financing their law school education.

In some ways, law school education is coming full circle, then.

Is the answer to the rising cost of a law school education to give students the option of paying only 2/3 of the law school fee by cutting out one year of school?

Some reasons cited for the proposal include the rising cost of a law school education and the poor job market, along with the perception that the third year of law school consists mostly of «filler» classes without much value.

The scope of this undertaking demands not just formal training from a course or two but also that its themes underlie the entirety of a law school education and of lifelong learning beyond the classroom.

I believe a law school education is an invaluable tool that has taught me to write and think critically, skills that are applicable to anything I'll ever do.

Doug chose Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, for both his college and law school educations, which he completed in 1982.

A separate call to action, # 28, recommends that a similar program of education be a required element of a law school education.

Marshall Lichty: So, I'm going to try to respond to that without letting this devolve into huge critique of the law school education industry as a whole.

There is an appreciation of the knowledge that a law school education affords and at the same time a concern that law school internships, while they might provide some hands - on training, are unstandardized and not well enough supervised by law schools.

Law school education and law practice are more disconnected than they should be.

As it is, I think that law school education and assessment is much too formulaic.

Koo's research, conducted in partnership with LexisNexis, found that more than 75 percent of lawyers say they lack critical practice skills after completing their law school education.

Today, AU's Frances Zacher looks at the bleak statistics facing people purchasing the product known as «law school education» and ponders whether law schools should design a warning for the legal education product they are selling.

He served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Florida Bar for six (6) years, and has served on the Florida Bar Code and Rules of Evidence Committee, Civil Rules of Procedure Committee and Law School Education and Admissions Committee.

None of this matters to BL1Y's target audience — those who think that a law school education will magically carry them over the rainbow to the field of daisies that is a life of fame, fortune, and, of course prestige.

«[T] he inquiry into one's private sex life and the ongoing «monitoring» of one's personal life is unwarranted, discriminatory and completely divorced from the requirements of a law school education, and individuals» reasonable expectation of privacy.»