Four different groups of respondents completed a set of simulation exercises intended to reflect lawyering skills involved in client interviews. Results suggest the appropriateness of simulation exercises as measures of clinical skills in legal education and the effectiveness of clinical programs in promoting development of such skills in law…

Discusses when law students legitimize the expectations of their professors rather than those of their peers. (Author)

This survey and analysis provides a picture of the role of each component of Ames (the cases, BSA advisors, arguments, and judges) in overall student attitudes towards the program. Understanding student reactions to Ames through appropriate polling can improve the quality of debate over the program and its contribution to first year study. (LBH)

The modern women's movement and the exigencies of the Vietnam War combined to produce a dramatic change in the composition of law school student bodies in only a few years. The speed with which women continue to be incorporated into the legal profession will be affected by many factors. (MLW)

Excerpts from law students' journals illustrate themes of their early experiences with law school, including idealism, high expectations, exhilaration, frustration, stress, conflict, boredom, alienation, and despair. (MSE)

A preliminary classification of methods used during first-year law courses to develop a sense of professional identification among students is presented. Professors' images of lawyers conveyed to students are described based on faculty comments. In addition, informal student interviews were conducted to determine their awareness of this…

An experimental program at Stanford University called "Lawyering Process" is described. The goals of the course include: (1) introducing legal planning and basic interpersonal skills; (2) examining the concepts of "professionalism"; (3) placing legal research and writing assignments in the context of law practice; and (4)…

A lawyer discusses legal education: the law's purpose to deliver competent legal services to the public; the widening gap in the preparedness of new lawyers; whose responsibility it is to prepare lawyers for competent practice--law schools, the bar, the government; responsibilities of practicing lawyers, etc. (MLW)

Major companies that offer streamlined, standardized bar review courses available in various media are listed, and state bar associations and licensing procedures are outlined for each state. (Journal availability: 1155 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637, $1.00.) (MSE)

Despite the myths and the movies, law teaching does little more than the most obvious things for its students. It is a sometimes clever, often boring, initiation rite for the legal profession, and it serves up reams of information about the law. However, the materials of law are the materials of human beings, and these experiences have to be…

The law review, it is suggested, is a species of publication that exists primarily to be written, not to be read. How the institution came into being, how a law review actually functions, and the consequences of the dominant law review pattern for legal education and the profession are examined. (Author/MLW)

Although the study of communication has been consistently recognized as a vital segment of legal training, it has not been universally adopted as part of the law school curriculum. A survey of 150 law schools was designed to determine the communication skills and training necessary for competent performance in both law school and professional…

A portion of a larger survey study of the socialization of law students is reported. Focus is on student perceptions and idealized views of law, lawyers, and legal education in general and changes in these attitudes influenced by exposure to law school over a seven-month period during the first year. (JMD)

Study objectives were to assess the status of a representative number of American Indian tribal governments and to share that information with other members of the national Indian community. Sixteen Indian law students, assisted by 8 Indian lawyers, worked on 17 different Indian reservations during the summer of 1974. Generally working on their…