Saturday, November 19, 2011

Law School & Law Practice

 "One 2010 study of hiring at top-tier law schools since 2000 found that the median amount of practical experience was one year, and that nearly half of faculty members had never practiced law for a single day. If medical schools took the same approach, they’d be filled with professors who had never set foot in a hospital." (David Segal Law Schools That Teach Little About Legal Practice New York Times (Nov. 19, 2011)

I practiced law for a few years; I was a litigator. I teach a course in fact investigation. The course tries to marry theory and practice. I am proud of the course; I have long thought it does useful things. But perhaps I should start calling the course "revolutionary"!?!


 
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

How Law Schools Try to Win Friends and Influence People

Joe Palazzolo, Law School ‘Porn’: On the Merits, WSJ Blogs (Nov. 17, 2011):
Let’s take a late-morning break to talk porn. Law school porn — those slick mailers law schools send this time of year to influence voting in the U.S. News & World Report’s reputation survey, which is based on voting by legal educators, lawyers and judges, and accounts for 40% of a school’s ranking score. 
The National Law Journal, in this story, picked up on a debate among law professors over whether law schools’ dollars aren’t better spent on, um, education.

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The free market at work.

It's a brave new world.

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The dynamic evidence page

Evidence marshaling software MarshalPlan

It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.

Spindle Law Interview of Joan Biskupic

Spindle Law Interview: Joan Biskupic