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The Benefits of Empathy in a Legal Education

The current divorce from reality in legal education

The 1L curriculum and much of the law school curriculum in general is focused on the idea that to study the law is to take an abstract and purely analytical approach to it. Following this logic, being a lawyer is also about abstractly approaching legal problems—and it certainly does not seem that our law school would wish us to think otherwise.
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 In my original paper I started considering the need to relate to clients, but it didn't get me far, or at least in the direction I wanted to go. But, because I really just started with the same initial thought but took it in a different direction, I'm leaving the ealrier draft below.

Recognizing Chance to Become Better Lawyers

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Introduction

The idea that we have “won the lottery” through our circumstances of birth has come up, and we have questioned where we go from here. I’d like to explore further how that can and should impact our future legal career and how it can help us be better advocates for our clients. Acknowledging that we were blessed to be born into the conditions we were—and I think this goes for anyone who is now at Columbia, because even if you were born poor and underprivileged, those are relative classifications—only takes us part of the way. We can realize that we may not have been given all of the opportunities that were open us, by chance or mistake. But we should also realize that, but for a chance in circumstances, we could have made the very same mistakes that our clients made, regardless of how grim.

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