Steven Lubet

January 01, 2007 | The American Lawyer

t wouldn't be hard to feel sorry for Lynne Stewart, the New York attorney who was convicted of providing material support to terrorists. At age 67, and suffering from breast cancer, she now faces 28 months in a federal penitentiary. After three decades of providing dedicated-and sometimes brilliant-representation to the poor and despised, her career is ruined and (as she once put it) she has no pension plan. Yes, her crimes were dreadful, but she wasn't the first guileless soul to be led astray by romantic

By Steven Lubet

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March 04, 2005 | Law.com

Almost nothing about law school tests and bar exams is designed to test the skills involved in law practice, says Steven Lubet. Some aspects of exams, like time pressure, are positively perverse, he adds. Test takers have only a few hours to assess problems, decide on answers, marshal material and write coherent answers. No time for reflection, research, reconsideration or redrafting. If a lawyer took that approach, says Lubet, it would probably constitute malpractice.

By Steven Lubet

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