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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 8, 2008

Move Over, New Haven and Boston - Academic Innovation Happens Here

California law schools have pioneered many academic innovations that elite East Coast schools are just now catching on to, writes Austen Parrish. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Austen Parrish
This article appears on Page 4

      Last week, over 8,000 law students took the California Bar exam. Thousands of others throughout the country sat for their state bar exams too. As these new graduates attempt to clear the final hurdle to becoming attorneys, it seems an opportune time to reflect on the state of American legal education.
      How lawyers...

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