With bar passage rates dropping nationwide, it’s clear that aspects of the process for testing would-be lawyers could use some first aid. At an Association of American Law Schools panel Wednesday, several legal professors suggested that the industry could literally look to medicine for a solution — specifically, to medical schools and the structure of medical licensing exams.
Medical professions require students to get far more hands-on experience before they receive a license than the legal profession does, NYU School of Law professor Claudia Angelos said. Doctors and dentists must spend at least 50 percent of their time in medical school practicing on patients. For lawyers, it’s 7 percent.
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