Reconciling Professional Legal Education with the Evolving (Trial-less) Reality of Legal Practice

Our focus in this paper is the impact of these trends on legal education, especially professional legal education. What is undeniable is that lawyers (and judges) are more and more involved in legal tasks which are not related to trials. This does not necessarily mean that the practice of law is focused exclusively on settlement activities, although such activities are increasingly important. Pre-trial processes and procedures including motions, discovery and mandatory settlement conferences take up more time than ever before.

Lawyers are playing a different role, offering different kinds of service to their clients, and performing different tasks