During the ABA’s 2013 mid-year meeting, the Task Force on the Future of Legal Education heard testimony from individuals about opportunities to improve legal education. Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers took this opportunity to submit a comment focused on aligning legal education with the needs of an evolving profession. The comment had six main recommendations:
Law schools should prepare law students for practice in a changing world.
Law schools should involve and listen to a diverse group of stakeholders including practitioners, judges, and clients.
Law schools and legal educators should collaborate and share what they teach so that new programs and curricula may develop and evolve.
Law schools should incentivize innovation and superior teaching to reward legal educators for continual improvement.
Law schools should value the teaching of professional identity as a vital core competency.
A system to measure and assess law schools preparation of students is necessary to determine what programs and strategies work to educate students for an ever-evolving profession.
