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Education

Jun. 21, 2006

Coaching Mock-Trial Trains Lawyer as Well as Students

Forum Column - By Clifford Yin - As a first-year associate with only a few weeks of law-firm experience under my belt, I found myself standing before a packed classroom of 20 restless high-school students, trying to teach them how to conduct a trial and, specifically, how to prepare for a mock-trial competition in which they would compete.

Forum Column

By Clifford Yin


     
      As a first-year associate with only a few weeks of law-firm experience under my belt, I found myself standing before a packed classroom of 20 restless high-school students, trying to teach them how to conduct a trial and, specifically, how to prepare for a mock-trial competition in which they would compete. As I started, I saw the eyes of ...

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