Practice Makes Perfect: New Practitioners’ Perspectives on Trends in Legal Education
Publication Title
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
Abstract
This Essay, by attorneys Claire Botnick and Cort VanOstran, both recent graduates of Washington University School of Law, offers a perspective on the efficacy and shortcomings of recent modal changes in legal training. Botnick and VanOstran have a point of view situated between a student’s immediate exposure but limited perspective, and the established practitioner’s measured but distant analysis. Botnick and VanOstran emphasize the importance of academic programs that prioritize a student’s interaction with the law through curricular offerings, clinical experiences, and oral advocacy training.
Recommended Citation
Claire Botnick and Cort VanOstran,
Practice Makes Perfect: New Practitioners’ Perspectives on Trends in Legal Education,
53
Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y
135
(2017),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol53/iss1/16