Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in legal service at the nation's law school still seems as strong as it was 15 years ago. At Harvard, for instance, 90 percent of second and third-year students spend time in school working in clinical and legal services programs...
These days, however, many lawyers and educators say that kind of public interest spirit does not translate into more legal service work after graduation, as it did a decade...
...they reach the same conclusion. Experts say 80 percent of the nation's current legal needs go unfulfilled, and they say the corporate lawyers fresh out of law school are not doing enough to meet that demand...
Alford, who accepted the offer, will head the school's East Asian Legal Studies Center, which has been without the direction of a faculty member for some time...
...Legal Ethics Start Young: More than 200 law students gathered in Harkness Commons last Thursday night for the much-anticipated season premiere of the hit TV show "L.A. Law." But at least one observer was a little worried about the future of the legal profession when cries of agreement greeted a character's remark that "we don't have time to go around making moral stands...