« New Acquisitions in October 2007 | Main | Resource Guide on Sex Offender Laws »

Bar Exam to Focus on Research Skills?

From the Out of the Jungle blog:
"The National Conference of Bar Examiners is still considering how to create a test of legal research skills that can be administered, scored and validated. If that test is ever added to state bar examination requirements, it will not be long before advanced legal research becomes a required subject at many schools. At this point, there are only a handful of schools (actually only one that I know of) that has a required advanced research class. That school is University of Maryland, who reported at the NE2007 regional meeting on their experience."

How does this affect law libraries? Read more...

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author. The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.