State Bar & Bar Associations
Feb. 20, 2013
State Bar proposal for more practical skills training will only burden law students.
Although well meaning, these recommendations are at best superfluous; at worst, they will significantly burden students and new admittees without providing any added protection to the public.
Ira L. Shafiroff
Professor, Southwestern Law School
Email: ishafiroff@swlaw.edu
Ira is the author of "First-Year Law School Success: the Ultimate and Essential Guide for Every 1L" (4th ed. 613 House) (2018). The views expressed in Mr. Shafiroff's columns are his own.
The Task Force on Admissions and Regulations Reform of the State Bar of California recently published a draft proposal recommending the bar's trustees add a pre-admission practical skills training requirement for newly admitted lawyers to make them "practice-ready." Although well meaning, these recommendations are at best superfluous; at worst, they will significantly burden students and new admittees without providing any added protection to the public.
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