I have recently received my first law degree this spring and now I am planing on going for my second law degree(LLM) soon. My GPA was pretty good(3.2) but to be honest I don't really feel much different after finishing then I did when I was first starting. I am just wondering if other people that have an LLB or a JD felt or feel the same way? I heard some people in the legal profession say that they got most of there education outside the classroom, when they actually started working. I wonder how much of that is true? Confused
I'm not a lawyer, but I work with them all the time. More than one has said that they graduated from a law school, not a lawyer's school.
Are you doing your articles? I personally think it takes about five years after law school for a lawyer to begin to "get it" and even then, many never do. I agree with the comment about "law school" instead of "lawyer's school"; this is a consequence of the hammerlock the ABA has on American legal education and their insistance on the "academic model". The California State Bar is much more encouraging of the use of active judges and lawyers as instructors than is the ABA. I would like to see a much more practice oriented training program. Your Canadian articles system would be a good start.
Oh, before you ask, MY law degree is from the University of New Mexico which has been ABA accredited since 1947. Rare among ABA schools, UNM has a clinical practice REQUIRMENT as opposed to OPPORTUNITY.
