Sentences with phrase «legal education models»

Among them, another call for the further innovation of legal education models, parallel programs — think a course on law office management — that offers law students some practical skills on top of their traditional learning, and the possibility of law schools tracking and sharing entry and exit data.

I was able to meet and exchange ideas with some of the nation's leading experts in innovative legal education models, legal tech, legal aid, and access to justice.

Reformed route could profoundly shake up traditional legal education models — and be trouble for legal executives

While the traditional legal education model has bred students to «Think like a lawyer,» the resulting outcome has left many graduating law students struggling to find employment that justifies the huge debt load many students take on and has created a huge access to justice gap that persist in low - income and rural communities.

«However, there are many barriers to legal innovation for the general public, including regulations on professional conduct, the malpractice insurance system, billing model and firm structure and legal education model.»

You can definitely expect more of these types of programs to crop up in the near future until there is a full revamping of our legal education model.

Clinical legal education took root in North American in the early 20th century when the first law schools in the United States recognized the need to supplement the case book method of legal education with the type of practical experience gained through the apprenticeship model that was the predominant legal education model in Europe at the time.

Not exact matches

Of course, homeschooling, the ultimate in putting parents in charge of their children's education and the historical model which worked for 230 years, is legal and practiced in all fifty states.

Five Buffalo teachers — supported by NYSUT — filed legal papers today with the State Education Department seeking the removal of school board member Carl Paladino for «racially inflammatory statements» about Obama, the first lady and African - Americans that have violated his duty to serve as a role model for the school community.

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Regardless of my own prejudices concerning to the no - excuses model of education, I hold a charter's autonomy in high esteem and would defend a charter school's right to impose its peculiar discipline policies as long as the school is transparent in their practices, and as long as those practices are legal.

Specifically under the nonclassroom - based legal classification of schools, there are many different education delivery models including a small number of 100 % online schools but also including personalized learning schools, homeschooling programs, traditional independent study programs, and hybrid programs.

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Stanford Law School has established a model for legal education that provides rigorous interdisciplinary training, hands - on experience, global perspective and focus on public service, spearheading a movement for change.

During his tenure, he spearheaded significant educational reforms, pioneering a new model of multidisciplinary legal studies, enlarging the clinical education program, revamping to foster a public service ethos, and developing the international law program to support a growing emphasis on globalization in legal practice.

More interesting, many of these schools - such as City University of New York or University of Dayton - are not considered «top tier» by conventional standards, so it's gratifying to see that those at top schools are open minded enough, and concerned enough about improving legal education to look to these programs as models.

The report suggests that we find new models for legal education, that we reflect on our practice in order to innovate,... [more]

Finally, as much as our legal education system needs reform, believe it or not, there are some who look to our legal education system as a model.

The Litchfield Law School would flourish from 1784 until 1833, providing practical legal training to students from across the nation, and producing many illustrious graduates.57 Other private law schools cropped up in the 1790s as well.58 They comprised not only the first attempts to systematically teach the law, but also set the mold for contemporary legal education.59 The moot court model pioneered by these schools would become the preferred way to teach practical skills such as writing and rhetoric.

The incubator model fills the gaping holes in a traditional legal education by providing real world experience in areas like accounting, marketing, business development, and technology within the safe confines of a teaching environment.

The initiative features three stages: a report discussing emerging trends in how social media and web 2.0 technologies can be used to provide legal education and information; a series of webinars exploring different models to provide access online to public legal education and information; and a national conference on technology and public legal education.

Anderssen also interviewed several senior family law practitioners in Ontario to identify other creative solutions for implementation here, which included greater public legal education and devolving much of the family disputes into a tribunal - style model.

The report suggests that we find new models for legal education, that we reflect on our practice in order to innovate, and that lawyers take an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to problem - solving — what would it mean to make these changes in a mindful way?

One such recommendation is the idea that educational institutions should create new models for legal education (recommendation 15).

The woes of legal education parallel those of the broken undergraduate model.

The Report concludes, therefore, that if legal educators acknowledge, as they must, the formative dimension of legal education, they should take a more active role in modeling a particular set of values that are central to the practice of law:

I think one of the real issues in legal education is the applicaiton of the «problem based learning» model as is increasingly used in medicine.

Law schools, and the very model of legal education itself, immediately come to mind as # 1 culprits — and for good reason.

It would be interesting to have a discussion on Slaw of the merits (and otherwise) of the various possible models of legal education.

«In that narrow model, a legal education would prepare students for one single thing: a job as a lawyer.

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Finally, to some, a Flex Time cohort within at least the First Year program will appear less a flexible or elastic model of legal education, but just a differently rigid option, with specific times and modes within which required courses must be taken — this is just as likely as the full - time model to work for some but not others in a diverse group of students.

While digital legal education is unlikely to be less expensive than in - person legal education, it may be structured and funded on a revenue neutral model over a sustainable time horizon, particularly as more widely adopted and mature digital platforms drive cost down.

The first Part of the study situates the discussion about access to legal education in a historical context by outlining the existing financial accessibility and inclusion models.

The second Part of the paper moves from the existing models of legal education to consider one which has not yet been attempted in Canada and attempts to answer the calls for financially accessible legal education — a Flex Time JD program.

Given the cultural shift this entails, and the need to explore new funding models, a more incremental approach to Flex Time legal education may be advisable.

Ryerson and the University of Ottawa each have piloted digital virtual firms as a model of legal education through the Law Society of Upper Canada's Law Practice Program (LPP).

In my view, the model of legal education that works best is one that helps future scholars understand the reality of law (not least so that they can critique it more effectively) and future practitioners understand why they are doing law the way they are.

Conventional legal education, modeled on a system invented at Harvard in 1870, teaches students how to «think like a lawyer», and how to spot potential legal issues.

Legal education, innovation, and business models have been the topics of meetings of the CBA and the Futures Steering Committee.

The goal of all clinical legal education, which is to improve the quality of practice because of the formative clinical lawyering experience, is better served by the fee - generating model.

The Accredited Training Providers together provide a global associate model to offer international law firms easier access to consistent and high level education, and a global method to allow their legal project practitioners to be certificated to the same standards.

Other jurisdictions should give serious thought to adopting this model for the delivery of public legal education.

The addition of such language to the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility makes a Legal Profession lab a good fit for the addition of hands - on technology skills education within the law school environment.

The extremely positive findings of the evaluation support the continued use and further expansion of this innovative model of public legal education delivery.

The system of legal education would be better with more room for different models.

For some students, a Lakehead - like model of legal education might be ideal.

Given the many, many paths graduates take, it is hard to imagine a monolithic model of legal education that will make them «ready» for all of them.

Legal education and the legal profession are at an inflection point where traditional models of education and practice no longer fit the shifting needs of the maLegal education and the legal profession are at an inflection point where traditional models of education and practice no longer fit the shifting needs of the malegal profession are at an inflection point where traditional models of education and practice no longer fit the shifting needs of the market.

Both ABA Rule 1.1 and the more recently adopted revised Model Rule for Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) and Comments dated February 17, 2017 have bearing on attorney requirements for technology competence.