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Schedule Registration Housing |
| Friday, January 7, 2000 8:30-10:15 a.m. |
Virginia Suite A Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Lobby Level |
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Section on Continuing Legal Education |
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| Joseph John Bracchitta, Pace University, Chair | |
| Kimberly Klein Cauthorn, South Texas College of Law, Program Chair |
| Legal Education as Continuum |
| Moderator: | |
| Kimberly Klein Cauthorn, South Texas College of Law | |
| Speakers: | |
| Catherine Greene Burnett, South Texas College of Law
Donald H. Green, Esquire, Pepper Hamilton, L.L.P., Washington, D.C. Wallace J. Mlyniec, Georgetown University |
| What can the law teacher and the CLE course developer learn from each other about educating today's law students and lawyers? |
| Law schools today are providing more skills training, more courses relating the substantive law to professional practice, and more clinical and internship opportunities to their students. Some would argue this effort to help law students be "practice ready" is in response not only to the MacCrate Report, but also to the legal employment market. Others would argue clinical courses are not designed merely to teach skills but to develop students' understanding and critical assessment of the practice of law, with practical skills and marketability mere by-products of the process. Either way, the gap between certain types of law school learning and CLE learning is narrowing. We, as CLE providers, have the opportunity to incorporate and adapt the best methods from each and to employ new delivery technologies to serve the educational needs of lawyers throughout their professional lives. |
| Business Meeting at Program Conclusion |