‘Tis the season to introduce legislation, so now is the time to plant a suggestion with California lawmakers to do a tune-up on the California Law Office Study Program (LOSP). A key goal of a t...
One of the things I love about having apprentices is that it encourages us to cultivate a lively learning environment in everything we do. We’ve made short videos about a couple of the fun + ed...
Last year, the State Bar of California created a the Civil Justice Strategies Task Force, the purpose of which is to: “analyze the reasons for the existing “justice gap,” to evaluate the...
https://likelincoln.org/narrowing-the-justice-gap-with-the-ca-state-bars-law-office-study-program/
What is the future of our economy, legal education, and the legal profession? And what is the role of legal apprenticeship in this transformation? Here it is, summed up in a 10-minute cartoon-pa...
Most states still do not allow people to become lawyers via apprenticeship, and citizen advocacy can change this. A surge of interest in legal apprenticeships will likely drive this change, fuele...
The American Bar Association should do a study of people who don’t go to law school, so that we may learn about the ways in which our profession is missing out. What are the talents, ideas, lif...
https://likelincoln.org/the-people-who-dont-go-to-law-school-part-2/
I am collecting a list of reasons that mentoring apprentices can be a wonderful thing for an attorney to do. The reasons reveal themselves to me over time, so I’m guessing that this will be t...
Future apprentices, take note: There is no shortage of law students and recent graduates who would be pleased to give you their textbooks and study guides. I asked some law student to forward my ...
Attorney Sushil Jacob advises clients at SELC’s Resilient Communities Legal Cafe, along with Thea Chhun, a legal apprentice at the Homeless Action Center. I recently had a conversation with a w...
Who in the world would think it a good idea to make a coloring book of “Great Lawyers?” In any case, I found this coloring book on the sidewalk recently, and it’s worth mentioning, becau...
With apprentices, learning about fracking and air pollution in CA’s Central Valley. Today, President Obama made the bold suggestion that, in order to make legal education more affordable, law s...
Throughout the U.S., legal services organizations are struggling to raise funds and meet demand for client services. Meanwhile, aspiring lawyers are discouraged — by the rising cost of law sc...
https://likelincoln.org/legal-service-organizations-meet-the-legal-apprenticeship-movement/
At the moment, three apprentices, one aspiring apprentice, and two law students are taking a 17-question torts multiple choice exam. This is part of the requirement that CA participants in the La...
It’s striking to learn that only 55,760 people applied to law school this past year, while 83,400 people applied to law school in 2008. It’s also thought provoking, and worth contemplating...
https://likelincoln.org/the_people_who_dont_go_to_law_school/
Belva A. Lockwood I discovered a new hero tonight, and it’s not just because Belva Lockwood advocated in the 1860s for the notion that girls should be taught to roller skate. Lockwood was one o...
https://likelincoln.org/belva-lockwoods-my-efforts-to-become-a-lawyer/
The first apprentice exam was all about housing cooperatives. One of the responsibilities of an attorney supervising legal apprentices in California is to administer an exam to apprentices once p...
https://likelincoln.org/this-is-not-jeopardy-thoughts-on-how-to-write-an-apprentice-exam/
Abraham Lincoln never went to law school; yet, he is one of the most celebrated lawyers in U.S. history. Society take note: Going to law school is not the only route to becoming a skilled and kno...