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I fear for the next generation of lawyers.

By Nancy Rapoport

Not only are they moving into a world that's increasingly precarious (generally) and into a legal world in which the rules of survival are getting more brutal, but they're doing so after coming into law school significantly less prepared. They don't have the liberal arts (or science) background that so many of us did (which enabled us to relate what we were learning in law school to other ways of thinking and analyzing), but they're simply not prepared to communicate well. Are they not getting solid training in basic writing (and I'm talking about spelling and punctuation problems) skills? We have very, very smart students. But too many of them aren't prepared for a complicated world. And it's not just students at Boyd. I've seen these problems at every school at which I've taught.

In a world that's going to be far more competitive, we need to help our students catch up to the skill level of students from other countries. But HOW?

Full post as published by Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).