Enrolling in a clinical course wasn’t an option when Joel Bernstein was a student at Brooklyn Law School in the early 1970s — lectures and seminars dominated the curriculum. Four decades later, his alma mater offers 19 clinics within the law school and in outside agencies — one of which is the Securities Arbitration Clinic that Bernstein oversees with a fellow partner in Labaton Sucharow.
“When you think about medical school, those students are seeing patients and cutting up cadavers,” he said. “They’re doing all sorts of stuff from almost the first week of the program. In our profession, until clinics started to become a big part of the educational process, people were just thrown in.” Today new lawyers handle complex matters the day they are sworn into the bar, Bernstein (left) said, yet he spent his first years on the job teaching himself to practice.
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