Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Law School graduates, at least, seem to follow the money: in 1995, 62 percent chose to work for law firms, which supply the highest paying jobs. Field Starting Salary Law Firm $72,000 Government 36,000 Legal Services...
...well doubt the efficacy of the many schemes devised to reorient the thinking of lawyers by altering legal education in America. These proposals come mostly from academic lawyers who, like their medical school counterparts, have a rather different view of their profession than do their client-oriented former students. Many academic lawyers would like to see a public-spirited political elite replace the private-law practicing lawyers whom they now teach....Everything from the study of Chaucer to the pursuit of 'social science' has been proposed to this end. What has not been shown, however, is that changes...
Clinicals are a hybrid of in-class instruction and real world practice. To take clinicals, students enroll in a standard class (such as administrative law, delivery of legal services, employment law, or family law). The "clinical" is the out-of-the classroom component, in which students perform a legal externship and help real clients resolve their legal problems...
Students represent clients who ordinarily could not afford legal counsel. Many students work in public defenders' and legal service offices. It is a great way to perform community service, and it's not purely extra-curricular--students typically receive one academic credit for every five hours of service...
...second-year student, I joined the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, one of the Law School's several clinical placements. Other clinical placements are also offered through the School's Office of Clinical Programs...