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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

LawTechnologyToday

In today’s legal profession, lawyers must be technologically competent. Examinees will be required to perform the activities typically required of a newly licensed lawyer. He hypothesized that “lawyers in general are woefully deficient in using the software tools at their disposal – e.g., Word, Acrobat, Excel.”

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State Bar CLEs: A Rant

Attorney at Work

I’ve been reading the meeting minutes published in my state bar magazine. CLEs Should Make You a Better Lawyer. This may be naive of me, and it may be because I’m still relatively new to the profession with only 10 years of experience, but shouldn’t the purpose of continuing legal education be to make us better lawyers?