Legal Research

The AmLaw Daily has a thought-provoking piece about the illogic of the current pedagogical method used in law schools.  That method, according to author Paul Lippe, results in graduates with a lot of debt but few skills that are useful to clients and very little understanding of client needs.  Unlike medical students, who are thrown into patient contact very early in their medical school career, a law student can graduate without ever meeting a real, live client.  Lippe proposes some fixes for the phenomenon of the educated, but professionally unprepared law school graduate, one of which is better use of technology to recreate the physically networked world of legal apprenticeship with the virtually networked world of Web 2.0.