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HelenMayerThirdPaper 6 - 09 Aug 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
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Takeaways | | | But one benefit to law school I did not account for in my analysis is the benefit of being part of a legal community – especially one in which people hold similar values. After publicizing my friend’s story, even among this small group, a member of our class came to me with information about how to file an anonymous complaint with the state’s Department of Labor, information I have passed along to her. It seems by sharing knowledge we can make change happen in people’s lives.
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- Concluding on how much law you can learn in law school from the end of the first year would be, to say the least, premature. And not every instinct to jump in and provide legal advice during law school would be wisely accded to, even if you have studied the relevant law.
- But your basic theory is correct: in law school one learns not how to solve legal problems, which practice teaches. Rather, law school teaches how to be ready to learn from practice, and how to make the transition to having a practice. The latter, as you know, has been somewhat lazily taught for the last two generations, as organizations hired most of the graduates and never allowed them to practice in any serious way thereafter until they were too old to begin. In the interim, law schools besides Yale began concentrating (often after an influx of Yale-trained teachers) on teaching people how to think about the law. This is not a contemptible skill, by any means: training creative lawyers is very important, and the people who are admitted to highly selective law schools would be the people to train. They have to become lawyers, too, however, which is where you need to be vigilant as a student.
- Meantime the lesson about sharing knowledge is the most important part. Using networks of people and knowledge to make things happen using words is the actual skill. Expertise in areas of law and bodies of relevant fact is part of the toolset for doing the job, but in the world we are living in, where clients are ever-more reluctant to pay by the hour and all the more insistent on paying for results, understanding how to use shared resources to achieve benefit for your client is the intellectual discipline you need to be attentive to gaining.
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