Sessions Information

  • January 5, 2011
    2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Session Type: Section Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Hotel: Parc 55 Wyndham San Francisco Union Square
    Room: Embarcadero
    Floor: Third Floor Level

    What are the causes of the lawyer distress problem? What role does legal education play in producing unhappy law students and lawyers?  What can we do to make things better?  Students enter law school with goals of helping others, improving peoples’ lives, and making the world a better place.  By the time they graduate, however, other considerations have supplanted students’ pro-social inclinations.  Their aspirations succumb to more extrinsic values, such as prestige and money, and they struggle with heavy debt loads and legal education’s dehumanizing effects on their psyches.  Despite the prestige associated with being an attorney, the profession is not ranked in the top ten for job satisfaction or happiness.  In fact, one recent study revealed that a majority of practitioners would not recommend law to a young person.  This powerful session will weave presentations by leading researchers in this burgeoning field and demonstrations of ways doctrinal, clinical, legal writing, and academic support professors and student services professionals are addressing or trying to address these concerns.

     

    Business Meeting of Section on Balance in Legal Education at Program Conclusion.

Session Speakers
Seattle University School of Law
Speaker

Marquette University Law School
Speaker

University of Connecticut School of Law
Speaker

Stanford Law School
Co-Moderator

Florida State University College of Law
Speaker

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Speaker

Seattle University School of Law
Speaker

Whittier Law School
Speaker

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Speaker

Stanford Law School
Speaker

Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Speaker

Washburn University School of Law
Co-Moderator

University of California, Davis, School of Law
Co-Moderator

Seattle University School of Law
Speaker

University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Speaker

Session Fees
  • 4070 Academic Support and Balance in Legal Education Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Student Services: $0.00