Abstract
This article discusses the findings of an American Bar Foundation study that focussed on the acquisition of lawyering skills. In Part II of this piece, those findings are used to define the deficiencies in the formal legal education process as perceived by its most immediate consumers. Our study of recent law school graduates suggests that there are a number of critical lawyering skills that could be taught in law school but in fact are not. Fledgling lawyers must acquire a substantial component of their legal education on the street - in actual practice. Clinical programs, moreover, have apparently not been able to reach enough students to fundamentally alter this state of affairs. In Part III, therefore, we will argue that for the sake of the ultimate consumer of the legal education process - the client - distinctions between clinical education and the traditional curriculum must blur rather than be maintained, whether by clinicians or nonclinicians.
Publication Title
Clinical Law Review
Volume
1
Issue
2
First Page
443
Recommended Citation
Joanne Martin & Bryant G. Garth,
Clinical Education as a Bridge Between Law School and Practice: Mitigating the Misery,
1
Clinical L. Rev
443
(1994).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/clr/vol1/iss2/12