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	<title>Best Practices for Legal Education &#187; Uncategorized</title>
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		<title>What We Have Learned About Learning Is That We Have Learned Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article was written in the New York Times in correlation with students returning to school. The article is about the extremely limited understanding of how we learn and the old adages about studying that have been proven false. For example, students will hear advice from their teachers such as, “[c]lear a quiet work space” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1549&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Orient, or Disorient?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mmjackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many, if not most, law schools conduct orientation for incoming first year students.  Faculty may be significantly involved.  Sometimes we might ask ourselves, in the hurry of early August, “Why are we doing this?!”  And, “How come we didn’t schedule time last April to talk about changing orientation?”  When faculties examine their orientation programs, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1539&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Law Firms Move to Merit Based Pay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal Law Blog recently posted on the change to merit pay raises at law firms, a move away from simple billable hours based raises. &#8220;It’s becoming increasingly clear that lockstep pay, in which associate salaries automatically rise each year, is becoming a thing of the past at many firms. Today there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1514&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grades Outweigh School&#8217;s Eliteness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article was sent to me from Professor Pam Armstrong, a lawyering professor at Albany Law School.  It cites findings that grades in law school are a more accurate predictor of career success than the eliteness of the school. The full text of the article is posted at the ABA Journal’s website. The research was also picked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1504&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Law Schools Really Teach Students to &#8220;Think Like Lawyers&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/08/11/do-law-schools-really-teach-students-to-think-like-lawyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new research paper recently published on SSRN, Douglas Rush, from St. Louis University reports that law schools may not be teaching students to &#8220;think like lawyers&#8221;.  The paper entitled &#8220;If You Think Law Schools Teach Students to ‘Think Like a Lawyer’&#8230;Think Again!&#8221; finds that &#8221;there has been little or no empirical evidence to test whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1511&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report of the Special Committee on the U.S. News and World Report Rankings</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/08/05/report-of-the-special-committee-on-the-u-s-news-and-world-report-rankings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Ramakrishna</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Resolution of the ABA House of Delegates requires an examination of any form of law school ranking.  Pursuant to the Resolution, ABA President Carolyn Lamm assigned the task of examining law school ranking to the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.  The Special Committee has prepared a comprehensive annotated bibliography on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1488&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABA CURRENT STANDARDS DO REQUIRE TENURE DESPITE ASSERTIONS OTHERWISE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I discussed the proposed changes to ABA standards with regard to academic freedom and faculty security of position.  Several faculty members privately e-mailed me to provide context and correction to my explanation of the proposed revisions to ABA standards and the underlying assertion that tenure is not &#8220;mandated&#8221; by the current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1498&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MORE PROPOSED REVISIONS:  FACULTY RESPONSIBILITIES EMPHASIZES TEACHING,  ASSESSMENT, &amp; INDIVIDUAL MISSION</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/07/23/more-proposed-revisions-faculty-responsibilities-emphasizes-teaching-assessment-individual-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the proposed revisions regarding academic freedom, the ABA Standards Review Committee also posted proposed revisions regarding Faculty Responsibilities – Standards 401-404.  [To see draft click on: http://www.abanet.org/legaled/committees/comstandards.html  The proposed revisions focus appropriately on student-centered learning and the need to make good teaching a central focus of law school accreditation. The proposed standards make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1473&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABA POSTS LAST MINUTE DRASTIC REVISIONS TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM STANDARDS</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/07/22/aba-posts-last-minute-drastic-revisions-to-academic-freedom-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed revisions to &#8221;Security of Position, Academic Freedom, and Attract and Retain Faculty” dated July 15, 2010, was posted on the web site of the Standards Review Committee on July 20, only three days in advance of the Committee’s meeting this weekend at which the SRC is slated  to discuss the issues it raises.   see http://www.abanet.org/legaled/committees/comstandards.html [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1460&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABA STANDARDS REVIEW CONTINUES TO SPARK ROBUST DISCUSSION AND STRONG COMMENTS</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2010/07/19/aba-standards-review-continues-to-spark-robust-discussion-and-strong-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in an earlier post, the next ABA Standards Review Committee meeting will be held in Chicago on July 24th and 25th at the Conrad Chicago in the Magnolia Ballroom, Salon A and B.  ( If you are interested in attending, contact Charlotte “Becky” Stretch at StretchC@staff.abanet.org.) Two areas have generated much comment:  the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&amp;blog=1333490&amp;post=1457&amp;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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