Legal educators are not known for embracing innovation and new teaching techniques, but some law professors are pushing for change amid a tight job market and pressure for schools to produce practice-ready attorneys.

More than 100 lawyers, deans and law professors met in New York on April 15 and 16 for the last of three conferences dubbed “Future Ed.” The conferences, spearheaded by New York Law School and Harvard Law School, were designed as a forum to swap ideas on how to update legal education, increase practical skills training, rein in costs and translate ideas into action.

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