Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing
By Joan Howarth
Hardcover
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By Joan Howarth
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The comprehensive source on attorney licensing and how to reform it.
In Shaping the Bar, Joan Howarth describes how the twin gatekeepers of the legal profession—law schools and licensers—are failing the public. Attorney licensing should be laser-focused on readiness to practice law with the minimum competence of a new attorney. According to Howarth, requirements today are both too difficult and too easy. Amid the crisis in unmet legal services, record numbers of law school graduates—disprop...






















