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Much attention is (rightly) focused on reforming the business side of #law/ #LegalEd.
What about innovating culture?
This article identifies some important issues begging for attention. https://twitter.com/profmadison/status/1296490134846812162
What about innovating culture?
This article identifies some important issues begging for attention. https://twitter.com/profmadison/status/1296490134846812162
“For good & often for ill, large numbers of law students (I’d wager that it’s a large majority of law students, in all law schools) believe that the surest & safest path to job success at graduation & career success shortly afterward is class rank & law journal membership.”
“That is, the classic markers of what private law firms have long deemed to be the essential attributes of the successful beginning lawyer: raw intelligence and work ethic. That’s student culture.”
“It’s deeply rooted in tradition and practice going back over 100 years. (Law schools tend to be complicit in that culture, enablers rather than resisters.)”
PAUSE! Re: the complicity of last schools:
I see this—& hear this from students —every year. Law schools impose the curve, create the hierarchy...and lecture students about being fixated on grades and harangue them for not having a growth mindset. (Seriously. We do this.)
I see this—& hear this from students —every year. Law schools impose the curve, create the hierarchy...and lecture students about being fixated on grades and harangue them for not having a growth mindset. (Seriously. We do this.)
“That culture can be changed, but only with a lot of effort, and not only effort by law schools themselves.”
Yes!
But: When?
Yes!
But: When?
The sad irony: as purveyors of a work ethic-worshipping culture, we can’t seem to muster time or sustained effort to work on fixing the way we work.
This much I know:
we need courage.
Because I suspect it will be something more like cultural revolution that will fix this mess we are in.
we need courage.
Because I suspect it will be something more like cultural revolution that will fix this mess we are in.
