" It's time to stop hiring students from Harvard Law. Or at least threaten to"

[sakky]

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if law students aren’t learning what they need in order to succeed as real live lawyers, it’s not fair to lay all the blame on academia. Law firms have been guilty accomplices. And in the end, it’s the firms who are going to need to force change. It’s time to stop hiring students from Harvard Law. Or at least threaten to… Imagine what would happen if a coalition of elite law firms approached every Ivy League law school and gave them an ultimatum: Change your curriculum, or in five years we will stop hiring your graduates…

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