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The current standards for education of new lawyers are problematic, but we cannot fix legal education without addressing the challenges that face the legal system as a whole.
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The State Bar of California has created a task force that will consider whether the state should require recent graduates to have practical experience before receiving a law license, and how the practical experience might be obtained.
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The New York State Board of Law Examiners announced the amendment of the New York Court of Appeals' educational requirements for U.S.-educated graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to sit for the New York State bar examination, including an… MORE
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The editor of the National Jurist looks back at themes that emerged at the annual Association of American Law Schools meeting and observes:
The level of experimentation and innovation is at its highest level since I began covering the market 20… MORE
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The 2011 Law School Survey of Student Engagement reported that 83 percent of students rated their law school experience as "good" or "excellent." Forty percent "felt their legal education had contributed 'only some or very little to their… MORE
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U.S. Senator and possible 2015 gubernatorial candidate David Vitter urged the state legislature to examine the current process for choosing judges—i.e., partisan elections—and consider moving to merit selection.
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In an article recapping the hearing before a House Judiciary panel on the growing costs of discovery, Eileen Malloy cites Rebecca Love Kourlis' testimony several times, including:
“Civil jury trials have all but vanished,” Kourlis added. The civil… MORE
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Sofia Adrogué, partner at Looper, Reed & McGraw, and Caroline Baker, a state district judge for more than 14 years, predict that e-discovery will continue to loom large in 2012.
With continued reliance on e-discovery forecasted, activity… MORE
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for judicial nominees to get an up-or-down vote after 90 days, regardless of whether they could overcome a filibuster.
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Gilbert A. Dickinson is senior partner at Dickinson Prud’Homme Adams LLP practicing in the area of medical malpractice defense and general insurance defense.
Mr. Dickinson received his undergraduate degree, Magna Cum Laude, and his Juris… MORE