Law students need to learn the business of law. In 1992, the ABA’s MacCrate Report identified the “organization and management of legal work” as one of the fundamental lawyering skills law schools should teach. Recent and disruptive changes in the legal market—including intensified competition among legal services providers, a shift in power to sophisticated clients, technological advances, and the emergence of new techniques for managing and delivering legal services—have made it all the more imperative that law schools prepare new graduates to be competent and adaptable entrepreneurs.
I taught law practice management at UC Hastings in the Spring 2013, and will offer the course again next academic year. My goal in writing this column is to describe the course and thereby to continue a conversation with attorneys in a wide array of practice settings—a conversation that has defined the structure and content of the course, which is a work in progress.
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