Blair Kauffman, a librarian at Yale Law Library, recently wrote an interesting blog on the importance of teaching new attorneys good research skills, and offered a proposal on how to accomplish this goal. Kauffman's proposal? Test for legal research skills on the bar. Kauffman's idea has garnered some support from others in the legal education community, such as Claire Germain, a law librarian and faculty member at Cornell, although there are naysayers.
Kauffman's proposal does make sense. One reason for requiring all lawyers to pass the bar, after all, is to ensure that new lawyers possess all of of the requisite legal skills, before they test their abilities on a hapless client. But too many don't.
...And this should be cause for concern.
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