<p>I have long held & advocated the belief that the final year of law school, the third year, should be restructured from theoretical coursework to mandatory clinical practice & full-time study for the bar exam. Much of the unnecessary coursework is a hold-over from the 1960s when a law degree was a bachelor’s degree (LLB) and not a doctorate (JD). Essentially, today’s lawyers are over-educated, yet undertrained.</p>