Shaping the Bar: The Future of Attorney Licensing

by Joan Howarth

The comprehensive source on attorney licensing and how to reform it.

In Shaping the Bar, Joan Howarth describes how the twin gatekeepers of the legal profession--law schools and licensers--are failing the public. Attorney licensing should be laser-focused on readiness to practice law with the minimum competence of a new attorney. According to Howarth, requirements today are both too difficult and too easy. Amid the crisis in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503613569
• ISBN13: 9781503613560
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"