Concern about students’ and recent law school graduates’ research skills has existed for decades. The Digital Revolution has added its own twist in that students consider Google an index and think everything can be found online simply by “googling” it. According to them, nothing more is needed.
We’ve often discovered, as have many of the firms that employ law students, that students don’t know how to approach a research problem. In today’s global economy, law students need to be able to leave school and be able to research effectively and efficiently from the first day that they are hired.
To address these concerns, the speakers at this program will be examining:
what first year law students should know about legal research; what law school graduates should know about approaching a research problem; how to assess the effectiveness of research courses; and how to create effective legal research classes.