TEACHING LAW PRACTICE: PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LAWYERS

By Charles Cercone, Nelson P. Miller & Christopher R. Trudeau, editors Change is here. Accelerating change in technology, trade, and regulation is rapidly reshaping the legal profession -- just as they are reshaping other fields. There is a new urgency to deliver affordable legal products and services to corporate and individual clients in sustainable law firm models. Huge new client populations have new legal needs that they expect lawyers to meet using efficient, accessible, affordable, and transparent means. Lawyers should not expect to return to traditional models of packaging, pricing, and delivering legal services. The question now is how lawyers will respond to changes in the market for legal services that have already occurred. Some lawyers and law firms are responding, identifying those burgeoning new client populations while designing new processes and implementing new systems to serve them affordably. Law schools have a peculiar responsibility and opportunity to help acc