The New York Bar Takes Lead in Challenging Law Schools to Produce “Practice Ready” Graduates
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This article from The New York Law Journal is by Fordham Law School Professor Bruce A. Green who is the Director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics. An excerpt:
Read original articleExperiential Learning: Practice Makes Perfect
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The New York bar has led the charge in challenging law schools to graduate “practice ready” lawyers. In 2011, the New York State Bar Association presented a resolution to the ABA urging “that the legal education providers focus on making future lawyers practice ready by enhancing clinical work and supervised activities such as meeting with clients inside and outside the clinical setting and in court, and developing further capstone courses.” The resolution drew on a report issued earlier that year by the state bar association’s Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession.
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