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Education

Sep. 25, 2013

Draft report urges sweeping changes to law schools

The U.S. legal education system needs to change how schools are financed and accredited and how lawyers-to-be are trained, a special ABA task force declared.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The American legal education system needs broad changes in how schools are financed, how they are accredited and how they train future lawyers, a special American Bar Association task force declared in a new draft report.


The report, put out for public comment Friday, also called for change in "the culture of law schools," which it said "is at the root of many aspects of current ...

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