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D-Day for law school deans
Paul Lippe | May 3, 2013

By now, it's old news that law is in a pickle. But if you look at that dust cloud on the horizon, you’ll see the Deans' Cavalry riding to the rescue.

For some time we’ve been saying that the recent “disengagement” strategy of law schools, aspiring to be uber-departments of American Studies or Political Philosophy while writing law review articles for other l...

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Only law schools that tackle costs, graduate client-centered lawyers will survive—a dean’s view
ABA Journal | Feb 21, 2013

As calls for reform of legal education continue to suggest a variety of directions, one thing is certain. Law schools will be expected to do more with less. We often hear legal educators highlight tensions within the loud criticisms aimed at today’s law schools. Critics tell us that costs are too high compared to the expected earnings of many law school graduates. They are. Critics a...

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How would you shape the law school experience for the next generation?
Paul Lippe | Feb 4, 2013

Thanks to reader support of this discussion at the New Normal, I was asked to speak to the “Deans Workshop for ABA Approved Law Schools” on Feb. 15 in Arizona.

I've been asked specifically to discuss how chan...

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But I Have All This Debt
Bruce MacEwen | Feb 2, 2013

I’ve been developing a theory for awhile about what the structure and composition of lawyers at a typical BigLaw firm may look like in future, and how it’s evolved already, and now that The New York Times has made it official that law school applications are...

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Disrupting the legal education marketplace
Jordan Furlong | Jan 31, 2013

Are you old enough to remember when the only way you could send a letter or a package to someone in another city was through the Post Office? Do you remember what it was like to deal with the employees and policies of a company that had a complete monopoly on a vital service? Remember how much you enjoyed that?

Are you also old enough to remember when the only way you could phone some...

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