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Law Practice

Sep. 20, 2006

Judges Ought to Grade Lawyers on the Quality of Their Lawyering

FORUM COLUMN - Like clockwork, a few weeks into each new law school semester my second- and third-year students, each of whom is working in a judge's chambers, start telling me all about you, the lawyers whose work they read and appearances they observe.


Forum Column

By Marsha N. Cohen

     
      Like clockwork, a few weeks into each new law school semester my second- and third-year students, each of whom is working in a judge's chambers, start telling me all about you, the lawyers whose work they read and appearances they observe.
      They are not impressed.
      That's not...

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