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A NITA Director Explains How Learning-by-Doing Teaches Necessary Skills to New Associates

2012-05-14T16:30:14+00:00

As the Director of Custom Program, Training and Curriculum for NITA, Terre Rushton (also a member of our Advisory Committee) helps firms address their professional development needs. NITA's learning-by-doing programs are known for developing the fundamental skills (core competencies) that clients expect from associates. She spoke with us about...

Areas of Innovation at the ETL Consortium Schools

2012-05-02T12:37:16+00:00

The Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers survey, carried out last year, provides an unparalleled overview of what is happening in legal education today, giving an update of the findings of the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report, Educating Lawyers. In previous posts, we have reported on aspects of the survey. For example...

LawSchooled: Putting the Student Back in Legal Education Innovation

2012-04-19T16:24:48+00:00

Anyone who has stopped by our site knows that we’re building a robust set of resources for law professors and law schools committed to—or even just curious about—innovating legal education. From teaching strategies to course portfolios, we’re targeting the very people who...

Regulation Counsel Says Law Students Need More Exposure to Professionalism

2012-04-16T17:31:18+00:00

We recently sat down to talk with John Gleason. As Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court, he directs the office of the Court responsible for lawyer admissions, registration, regulation, and client protection. In 2010, Gleason was appointed by the Arizona Supreme Court to investigate and prosecute Andrew Thomas, the former...

Albany and Hofstra Join Our Consortium of Law Schools Committed to Innovation in Legal Education

2012-04-13T12:30:10+00:00

Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers adds two new partners to its Consortium of law schools that demonstrate a commitment to legal education reform and current Carnegie-style curricular offerings. Albany Law School has a long-established focus on student-centered learning as well as teaching and assessment methods inspired by Carnegie-styled education...

ETL Now Recognizes Fellows for Their Contributions to Legal Education

2012-04-11T19:00:32+00:00

We are pleased to announce that professors whose courses are featured on the ETL website will be named Fellows of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers in order to honor their roles in advancing legal education. At present, the Fellows of ETL are: Gillian K. Hadfield, University of Southern California...

Paul Lippe Interviews Dean Martin Katz on Legal Education Reform

2012-04-02T14:19:48+00:00

In an interview with Paul Lippe on Legal OnRamp, Dean Martin Katz, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers executive committee member, discusses experiential learning, the Carnegie Report, and Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers. Asked how law school faculty members can be motivated to embrace change, Dean Katz said: The first thing...

Student Perspective: Teaching the Importance and Skill of Client Counseling

2012-03-15T12:03:29+00:00

Allison Small is a third year law student at Hofstra Law who took Family Law with Skills as a second year law student. She is now a teaching assistant for the course. Her professional field of interest is child and family studies. One of the most...

Getting Beyond the Rhetoric: Findings from the ETL Survey on Curricular Initiatives

2012-03-15T11:59:18+00:00

In the wake of the recent economic downturn and its aftermath, law schools and legal education are again the focus of intense scrutiny. Unfortunately, there is often more rhetoric than constructive discussion. A key prerequisite for fostering any kind of critical and creative thinking and activity is having a reasonably...

Student Perspective: Inside Family Law with Skills

2012-03-14T19:45:17+00:00

Allison Small is a third year law student at Hofstra Law who took Family Law with Skills as a second year law student. She is now a teaching assistant for the course. Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers has chosen Family Law with Skills at Hofstra Law as one of the...