American Legal Education and Professional Despair

Reflections on Class in American Legal Education Richard

INTRODUCTION Professor Richard Sander’s Class in American Legal Education is an almost unique effort to examine empirically the social class origins of American law school students and to relate law student class origins to law school stratification, the class structure of American society and the potential law school applicant pool. His effort, and the special attention he gives to the class c...

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...

Professional education.

Legal Education and Public Policy: Professional Training in the Public Interest

Developing the legal information professional: A study of competency, education and training needs

Purpose – Legal information work has expanded with the growth in knowledge management and emergence of a new type of knowledge/information manager, the professional support lawyer. This study investigated competency requirements for library-based information work in UK law firms, including the specialist subject knowledge required, methods of development and the impact on information profession...