Instilling Confidence and Receiving Feedback: Creating Opportunities for Improved Success in Law School and Satisfaction in Legal Practice

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Borman
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Legal Practice

scholarly journals Lawyers of the future: Creating aspirations, forging connections and facilitating professional links in rural and regional contexts

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sher Campbell ◽  
Katherine Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Program

In recent years, the Australian legal profession, government policymakers and the nation’s law schools have evinced concern about the future of legal practice beyond metropolitan areas. The issues and suggested responses have been debated in various fora amongst the stakeholders. This paper explores the way in which one regional law schoolwith a distinctive approach to legal education has responded to these issues from an educational and pastoral perspective. Newcastle Law School established its Lawyers of the Future program in 2009. Lawyers of the Future is a multi-faceted initiative, which promotes professional partnerships with the secondary education sector through the Schools’ Visit program, and partnerships with rural and regional professionals through active connections in those areas. The third phase of the Lawyers of the Future program will be the development of rural and regional legal placement sites for senior law students enrolled in Newcastle’s Professional program.Whilst the Lawyers of the Future program has three distinctive and interrelated elements and objectives, it is the placement program that provides the lynchpin. Such a placement program, which is innovative in itself, has a greater educational purpose: the experience of practice in rural and regional areas, together with the process of subsequent engaged and critical reflection, will contribute meaningfully to the development of students’ professional personae in ways which will support an ethos of professional service beyond the narrow confines of practice in the metropolis for the legal conglomerates. 

Design and build the legal practice course at Nottingham law school*

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Slorach ◽  
Stephen Nathanson
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Legal Practice

scholarly journals Legal Education Reform and the Good Lawyer

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Woolley
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Law School ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Cautionary Note ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Large Lecture ◽  
Essential Function

The critics agree: law schools do it wrong. Stuck in early twentieth century practices that emphasize instruction in legal doctrine in large lecture halls, law schools fail to provide their students with the skills necessary to be practicing lawyers and to be marketable to prospective employers. They fail to instill in their students the “professional identity” necessary to achieve ethical legal practice. This article sounds a cautionary note with respect to those proposals for reform that reject the traditional emphasis on doctrinal teaching. In particular, and in contrast to the critics who view doctrinal learning as inconsistent with, or unrelated to, the creation of ethical lawyers, this article suggests that the emphasis on law in law school serves an essential function in creating ethical legal practice.

scholarly journals Social Justice in Application: Counselor Training in a Legal Context

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista M. Malott ◽  
Tacia Knoper
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Counselor Training ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Law School ◽  
Interdisciplinary Training ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Legal Context

A paradigm shift in counseling toward a social justice framework indicates the need for corresponding change in counselor education practices. In this article, the authors present a unique, interdisciplinary training program at one university, whereby counseling students aid clientele through social justice counseling in collaboration with students from the Law School and Modern Language Department. Program development and challenges unique to this collaborative venture are described. Three cases will illustrate the counselors’ role in the context of legal practice.

Murmurings

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-35
Author(s):  
Ian Ward
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Law School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Church

This chapter focusses on David Hare’s Murmuring Judges; part of his critically acclaimed ‘State of the Nation’ trilogy, produced in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In each of these plays, Hare focussed his attention on the seeming dysfunctionality of particular public institutions. The other two plays in the set examined the Church of England and the Labour Party. Murmuring Judges, as the title suggests, focusses its attention on the legal profession; more closely still the Bar and the police. Hare’s critique of legal practice, and education, chimed with contemporary movements in ‘critical legal studies’ or CLS, as it became known. The CLS movement sought to uncover the ‘politics of the law’, and its consequence, arguing that its roots could be located in the modern law school. This chapter brings this claim and Hare’s play into alignment.

Legal Education in Malaysia in the Context of Legal Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.29) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Norfadhilah Mohamad Ali ◽  
Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli ◽  
Syahirah Abdul Shukor ◽  
Mohd Nasir Abdul Majid ◽  
Hendun Abd Rahman Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law School ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Reasonable Expectation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Private And Public

Upon attaining independence in 1957, most judges and lawyers in Malaysia received legal education and legal training in the United Kingdom. University of Malaya was the only premier law school in Malaysia during that time. Gradually, the number of law schools increased and now legal education is available in a number of both private and public universities in Malaysia. The landscape of legal education differ post 2008 when new law schools from public universities were made subject to a review conducted by the Legal Profession Qualifying Board (LPQB) – failure to obtain full recognition will result in students from the universities concerned, having to sit for Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) examination. In the light of this development, legal education in Malaysia has become under strict  scrutiny by the legal fraternity, and thus it is a question of what reasonable expectation should the country set on the legal education provided by universities. This article will address legal education from the point of view of universities, the relevance of the CLP examination and the level of skills and knowledge required to produce ‘practice-ready’ graduates. The discussion also considers the availability of the 9-months pupillage before admission to the Malaysian Bar and  other criteria for education as provided for by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA). The whole paper will be based on the  Legal Profession Act 1976, the MQA guidelines, the developments of legal education in Malaysia and the experience of laws schools under review by the LPQB and other stakeholders.   

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1984 ◽  
Vol 31 (02) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
A. W. Koers
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Persian Gulf
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