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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

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Currently, most states have created the duty of technology competency by adopting some form of Model Rule 1.1 Law schools have a duty to maintain a rigorous program of legal education and enable students to develop their professional identity. He agrees that attorneys should dedicate time to getting technology training.

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Lawyers Should More Often Talk About Their Failures

Above The Law

I learned much about the legal profession from defeats that law firms at which I worked endured earlier in my legal career. Shortly after graduating from law school, I worked at a Biglaw shop performing mostly grunt work for some huge litigation matters. The firm took on a pro bono case for a charity they routinely assisted.

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A Perpetuities Problem Strikes In Wisconsin

Above The Law

The rule against perpetuities was created for two reasons: (1) to torture bar exam applicants and (2) to establish that the long dead ought not have the right to intervene in the affairs of the living. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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More broadly, life on the ranch prepared her for other experiences in later years, as she noted that until she began to ride with the cattle drives, “it had been an all-male domain. Also like Ginsburg, O’Connor was unable to find work at a law firm even though she was at the top of her class and an editor of the law review.

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