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Foundations For Practice

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IAALS and LSAC to Develop Updated Model of Lawyer Skills and Competencies
IAALS and LSAC to Develop Updated Model of Lawyer Skills and Competencies
IAALS and the Law School Admission Council have announced a new joint project designed to provide a comprehensive updated view of the skills and competencies new lawyers need to succeed and serve clients well in the rapidly evolving legal profession.
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Foundations for Practice
Foundations for Practice
Foundations 2.0 is underway! Our Foundations work has compiled the competencies, skills, and characteristics new lawyers need to succeed, and we have created different pathways to improve professional development, legal education, and legal hiring, working directly with law firms and law schools to implement best practices.
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ABA Urges Holistic Approach to Hiring, Echoing Goals of IAALS’ Foundations for Practice
ABA Urges Holistic Approach to Hiring, Echoing Goals of IAALS’ Foundations for Practice
The ABA has proposed a resolution encouraging law firms to take a more comprehensive approach when recruiting law students, considering foundational skills alongside more traditional factors—echoing the research and recommendations in IAALS' Foundations for Practice project.
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Equity in Law School Admissions and Legal Hiring After Affirmative Action
Equity in Law School Admissions and Legal Hiring After Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action ruling will undoubtedly impact law school admissions and legal hiring. Now, more than ever, efforts to improve equity and inclusion are crucial for creating a more diverse legal profession.
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Denver Law Firm Coalition for Racial Equity Makes Strides, Looks to Future
Denver Law Firm Coalition for Racial Equity Makes Strides, Looks to Future
Representatives of the Denver Law Firm Coalition for Racial Equity recently sat down to discuss the coalition's efforts to date, what lies ahead this year, and how IAALS has played an integral role in this important work.
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To See Clearly: The Mission of Defining Lawyer Competence and Revitalizing the Legal Profession
To See Clearly: The Mission of Defining Lawyer Competence and Revitalizing the Legal Profession
Lawyer development is a single continuum that starts even before the first day of law school, and continues past the point when a lawyer has become an independent, confident, and proficient professional. Until we recognize this fact, we will continue to struggle to develop lawyers properly.
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The IAALS Effect on Hiring at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
The IAALS Effect on Hiring at Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell
At Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell, we’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the outcomes and transformation that IAALS has achieved through Foundations for Practice. We collaborated with IAALS to survey our partners on the characteristics that they viewed as most essential for new associates to be successful at WTO, and the outcomes for retention and diversity have been exciting and encouraging.
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Putting Students at the Center of Modern Legal Education
Putting Students at the Center of Modern Legal Education
As I’ve learned from many years practicing and advocating for innovative design changes in legal education, teaching online does not and should not involve doing what professors have always done—lecturing, leading discussions, and delivering exams—just through internet-enabled platforms. Instead, law professors should implement design principles to their courses for delivery in any modality: classroom, online, or blended.
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IAALS Releases New Tools to Cut through Bias in Legal Hiring and Improve Legal Education Outcomes
IAALS Releases New Tools to Cut through Bias in Legal Hiring and Improve Legal Education Outcomes
IAALS has released two new guides that detail innovative ways for legal educators and legal employers to implement data-driven, outcomes-based standards to train and hire better lawyers. The guides are the first in IAALS' new suite of Foundations tools to create alignment between law schools and legal employers, and to address structural problems within the legal profession.
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The Legal Profession's Leaky Pipeline Is Leaving Black Americans Behind
The Legal Profession's Leaky Pipeline Is Leaving Black Americans Behind
The legal profession is fraught with systemic barriers to entry that form ripple effects on the road to becoming a lawyer. The pathway is much like narrow pipeline—entry is limited and every segment is springing leaks, disproportionately affecting people of color along the way—creating a profession that is among the least diverse in the country.
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