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: Slaw.caWe?re not hiring your grads until you improve your legal research program
By Simon Chester
Title says it all. But a good piece on Law Librarians’ Blog that should resonate outside the US.
If students didn’t take the optional advanced legal research course taught by law librarians, they will leave law school ill-equipped for real world research. The problem is systemic and nationwide; the typical 1L legal research and writing program just doesn’t get the job done.
Nothing much will change until private sector employers and their law librarians demand improvements in legal research instruction. It won’t happen internally. The traditional legal research and writing program and its instructors are simply too entrenched.
Full post as published by Slaw.ca on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).
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