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Law Practice

Aug. 28, 2009

UCI Program Matches Mentors, Students

Jessica Glynn hits the books between classes in UCI Law’s new library. Like each of her classmates, Glynn will have the benefit of mentors to help guide her through big-picture practice issues as well as nuts and bolts of handling teaching techniques such as the Socratic method.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

IRVINE - One of the most unusual features of UCI's new law school is a program that connects each student with a practicing lawyer as a mentor. This first year, the students actually get two.

The idea is to pair students with practitioners who can show them what being a practitioner is all about.

"I want to pass on my excitement" about practicing law, said mentor Brett J. Williamson, a lit...

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