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"Teaching Makes You a Better Lawyer"

This post was written by Nena Street: "As lawyers, we teach all the time. Legal practice requires that we learn, analyze, teach and persuade. We teach juries, judges, clients, adverse parties, and colleagues. A good lawyer is a good teacher. If you enjoy the teaching part of practice, pursue teaching opportunities, whether as an adjunct professor of law or a regular on the CLE circuit, and you will become a better lawyer.

Teaching will press you to add breadth and depth to your expertise, get up-to-speed on current developments in your field, expand your network in a meaningful way, improve your public and improvisational speaking skills, bolster your professional reputation, and improve your confidence....

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Source: The Lawyerist.com, 19 January 2010

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).