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Education

Oct. 4, 2014

Despite early worries, law schools unfazed by new skills requirements

California law schools say they will be able to meet regulators' demands for more practical skills training while holding down costs. They are already demonstrating a wide variety of approaches.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


When the American Bar Association and the California State Bar announced that they might require law students to take clinical or other practical skills classes, law school officials were alarmed.


Several deans told the State Bar's special task force on skills training to be "very cautious how you implement this," as one of them put it. Two years later, this January, 11 senior Yal...

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