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For the final video in our five-part legal education series, we’d thought it would be appropriate to offer the thoughts of the deans of Minnesota’s four law schools on the possible future of legal education and/or the legal profession. It bears noting the several of the deans specifically cited the legal education reform recommendations of [...]

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While they are not very popular in academia, the fact that U.S. News & World Report rankings have real world impact for law schools that cannot be denied. The magazine’s ranking system includes a “Top 100″ list (with extra prestige to those law schools in the Top 50, Top 20, Top 10 and, at the pinnacle, [...]

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Somewhere in the neighborhood of 900-1,000 new lawyers will be admitted into the practice of law in Minnesota this year in the midst of the worst legal job market in decades. The vast majority of those new lawyers are graduates of one of Minnesota’s four law schools. Two of those law schools (the University of Minnesota [...]

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In part 2 of our video series on legal education, Minnesota Lawyer talks with the deans of the state’s four law schools about how the explosive growth of educational debtloads is impacting law students and the profession. For part 1 of the series (discussing how the bad economy is impacting law students and recent law grads), click [...]

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With all the changes going on in the legal field right now, Minnesota Lawyer thought it would be a good idea to take a step back and talk take a look at the feeding ground of our profession — law schools.  To that end, Minnesota Lawyer editor-in-chief Mark Cohen recently interviewed the deans of all four local [...]

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