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1. Michael Madison: Lawyers Are More Than Counselors

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   Michael Madison is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Here, he talks about his vision for what a lawyer's role is, which evolved from his experience as a lawyer in Silicon Valley. "Lawyers become major nodes in complex institutional networks--not supporting marginal players."  

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2. Student Work: Winning Oath Fall 2008 - Contracts I and II

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   This first year Contracts class, taught in a two-course sequence at Washburn University School of Law, emphasizes professionalism and the importance of integrity in the practice of law. As a reminder of these values, Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz asks students to draft their own “Oath of Professionalism” by which they will abide throughout their participation in the co... MORE

3. Custody Hearing: Louisiana Civil Law of Persons (Family Law)

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   Monica Hof Wallace is a professor of law at Loyola New Orleans College of Law. This video displays students participating in Module 3 of 4, progressing through the family law process of divorce—the child custody hearing.

4. Confidential Group Assessment Form - First Year Contracts

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   The First Year Contracts course at the University of Southern California updates the traditional notion of a contracts course by teaching students to actually do contracts, as opposed to simply applying rules drawn from appellate cases and hypothetical scenarios. This Confidential Group Assessment Form provides an opportunity for students to give feedback about their interaction... MORE

5. Describing the Ball: Improve Teaching by Using Rubrics

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   Assessment is crucial to effective teaching and learning. Carnegie's Educating Lawyers and Roy Stuckey's Best Practices for Legal Education emphasize the importance of assessment. This article explains how detailed, written grading criteria describing what students should learn and how they will be evaluated should be a central part of law teachers' assessment... MORE

6. St. Thomas School of Law's Faith-Based Model

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   At the 2012 Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Conference, several deans and professors from ETL consortium schools discussed entire-law-school-focused curriculum aimed at integrating professionalism in the classroom. In this video, Professor Jerome Organ describes some key elements that make up the University of St. Thomas School of Law’s faith-based, professional formation law s... MORE

7. Voices from the Field: Daniel Girard, "Professionalism is the One Skill that is Non-Negotiable"

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   In his Voices from the Field interview, Daniel Girard, founder and managing partner of a San Francisco- and New York-based litigation firm, voices his opinion about legal education and on the most promising teaching techniques implemented in law school classrooms today. In this video, Girard discusses the critical importance of students exhibiting... MORE

8. To Group or Not to Group: Students’ Perceptions of Collaborative Learning Activities in Law School

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   This article reports on the first phase of a three-part research project aimed at providing some insight into the motivations, operations, and effectiveness of student-led study groups in law school. In the first part of the project, reported here, Dorothy Evensen sets out to understand how law students perceive and describe their experiences with group learning in law s... MORE

9. Father Google & Mother IM: Confessions of a Net Gen Learner

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   In her article, Carie Windham discusses what it means to be a part of the Net Generation by drawing on experiences and examples from her own education experience. Next, she addresses what technological advances have done for her study habits and learning processes. Finally, Windham suggests the ways in which university and campus communities fall short in providing adequat... MORE

10. Take Home Assignment #1 - Louisiana Civil Law of Persons (Family Law)

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    This take home assignment is the first from Professor Wallace’s Civil Law of Persons course at the Loyola New Orleans College of Law. The assignment explains a scenario in which a couple marries, various facts unfold, and the students must then answer questions regarding marriage, divorce, and recommended courses of action.