Yesterday's Sunday New York Times had a lengthy front page story titled "What they don't teach law students: lawyering." The article discussed a lack of "practical training" in law schools, saying "Law schools have long emphasized the theoretical over the useful, with classes that are often overstuffed with antiquated distinctions, like the variety of property law in post-feudal England. Professors are rewarded for chin-stroking scholarship, like law review articles with titles like “A Future Foretold: Neo-Aristotelian Praise of Postmodern Legal Theory.”" and "nearly half of faculty members (at top tier law schools) had never practiced law for a single day."
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