Making Lawyers After COVID: Skills, Professionalim and Preparedness in a Post-Pandemic World
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Jenoff, Pam R.
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2023-12
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In March 2020, legal education and the legal profession—along with the rest of the world—were thrown into upheaval by the COVID pandemic. Attorneys were forced to suddenly rethink practice and law schools were challenged to re-envision learning in ways that have irreversibly changed both. As a result, the practice of law and the corresponding preparation of law students for it have become increasingly complex.
This article looks at the ways in which law schools can meet this new challenge by reconceptualizing the convergence between skills and professionalism. Part I assesses the role of skills and professionalism in legal education over the past several decades. Part II examines the ways in which the COVID pandemic irreversibly upended legal education, the practice of law and the lives of lawyers. Part III considers what the practice of law looks like after the pandemic and what law students will need to prepare for it. Finally, Part IV addresses how to meet the increasingly complex challenges of preparing law students for the practice of law after the pandemic by harnessing the synergies of skills and values training instead of dividing them. By reconceptualizing the two as a unified “Professional Skills and Values” curriculum, law schools can better prepare students for new realities of practice after the pandemic.
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Creighton University School of Law