Category Archives: Law Schools

White House Champions of Change Event October 13 — Video Now Available

Posted on October 7, 2011 by richardzorza

Update: the video of the event is now on the White House site.  Expect blog entries there on law school follow up. _____________________________________________________________ I understand that the White House is planning a “Champions of Change” event, celebrating leaders in the … Continue reading →

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Derrick Bell Has Died

Posted on October 6, 2011 by richardzorza

Derrick Bell has died.  As the NYT obit puts it: Derrick Bell, a legal scholar who worked to expose the persistence of racism in America through his books and articles and his provocative career moves — he gave up a … Continue reading →

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NewsMaker Interview — Fred Rooney on the CUNY Incubator

Posted on September 22, 2011 by richardzorza

Today’s Newsmaker Interview is with Fred Rooney at CUNY Law School.  He directs CUNY’s Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN) and, along with Sue Bryant, created the Incubator for Justice program, which helps law gradates transition to economically viable solo and … Continue reading →

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Law School Incubators — Excellent Article and Some Thoughts

Posted on September 7, 2011 by richardzorza

Recently, I blogged suggesting an overview of the systemic problems with the entire legal system.  One of the interlinked barriers that I highlighted was “A system of professional rules and business practices that makes this [legal] expertise highly expensive to … Continue reading →

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CALI Confernce for Law School Computing Posts its Sessions Online

Posted on July 3, 2011 by richardzorza

This is an impressive set of online materals (video and often ptts too) for a total of about 50 sessions. Some titles: Competing with Facebook The Future (of Web Development) is Now: Key Features of HTML5 that are Ready for … Continue reading →

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Lawyer Surplus in the US — Action By Law Schools For New Delivery Models Long Overdue

Posted on June 28, 2011 by richardzorza

The New York Tines Economix blog collects data on the lawyer surplus. Key scary statistic: “In fact, across the country, there were twice as many people who passed the bar in 2009 (53,508) as there were openings (26,239)” The post … Continue reading →

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Reflective Response on Thinking About Client’s Feelings — Suggestions for Progrms and Funders to Address Issues

Posted on March 31, 2011 by richardzorza

I am posting a response (with permission to do so without attribution) to the recent blog about thinking about litigants’ emotions. Thanks for raising this. I think that a lot of a lawyer’s inability to deal with emotions starts in … Continue reading →

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Keeping Open to Research Regardless of Perceived Risk By Minimizing Error in Use of Access Research

Posted on March 29, 2011 by richardzorza

This is a modified version of my post yesterday, Avoiding the Shut Down Effect  From Uncertain Research Results in the online Symposium conducted by the Concurring Opinions blog. That blog is about some research, previously highlighted on this blog, into … Continue reading →

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Impact on Outcomes of Participation by Interns/Residents in Surgery — Thinking About Students in Access Services

Posted on March 25, 2011 by richardzorza

Fascinating NYT piece about research into whether having doctors in training — interns or residents — participate in surgery impacts outcomes.  This is a big study and the results paint just the kind of complicated picture that gets you thinking. … Continue reading →

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Can We Keep Law One Profession?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by richardzorza

Steve Pearlstein in Sundays Washington Post has a great piece on how the DC law firm now called Howrey collapsed. Bottom line, while the firm was highly innovative, for example replacing the traditional second year summer associate wine, sports, and … Continue reading →

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Quantitiative Boot Camp on Access to Justice?

Posted on March 6, 2011 by richardzorza

The recent post on the law professor’s quantitative boot camp got me thinking about the need for something similar for access to justice professionals. (see the mention in my post introducing the Empirical Legal Studies Blog. We need to find … Continue reading →

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Empirical Legal Studies Blog

Posted on February 21, 2011 by richardzorza

Thought that a quiet day (President’s day) might be a good time to tell folks about the Empirical Legal Studies Blog Authors include Carolyn Shapiro at Chicago Kent, Christopher Zorn at Penn State, David Stras at Univ of Minn, Dawn … Continue reading →

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LSC TIG Request for Letters of Intent

Posted on February 10, 2011 by richardzorza

The LSC TIG request for Letters of Intent is now out.  The Letters of Intent (LOI) are due Monday March 7, 2011.  This Wed Feb 16 webinar (update — now available here) on the process would be particularly helpful for … Continue reading →

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Two Year Law Degree — UK Experiment and Questions for US Legal Education

Posted on February 2, 2011 by richardzorza

Richard Moorhead, in his LawyerWatch blog discusses the new UK two year law degree offered by the College of Law, which was originally founded by the law society (bar association).  Most of the UK discussion seems to be about the … Continue reading →

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Implications of Broadband Initiative for Access to Justice — Interesting Canadian Experiment and a TIG idea

Posted on January 31, 2011 by richardzorza

Sunday’s Washington Post on rural broadband set me thinking about the need to be more creative about broadband and the justice system. When someone says medical and broadband in the same sentence, you know what to think — doctors doing … Continue reading →

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