Why the American Bar Association Should Require Law Schools to Increase and Improve Law Students' practical Skills Training
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Authors
Hiatt, Mitchell D.
Issue Date
2012
Volume
45
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Law students currently do not obtain adequate practical skills training during law school to practice law after they graduate. Law schools should improve the practical skills training they provide to law students. Improving practical skills training will require law schools to generate additional resources. In generating additional resources, law schools should not increase student tuition; rather, law schools should divert resources currently dedicated to producing scholarship and dedicate those resources to improving practical skills training. Law schools and the individuals who manage them are unlikely to institute such changes without external pressure or obligations imposed by the American Bar Association. As such, the American Bar Association should require law schools to decrease their emphasis on producing scholarship and dedicate recently-freed resources to improving practical skills training...
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45 Creighton L. Rev. 869 (2011-2012)
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Creighton University School of Law