Posted on behalf of Kelly Browne
Jessie Wallace Cranford
Circulation Librarian &
Professor of Law Librarianship
UALR/Pulaski County Law Library
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Browne, Kelly [mailto:kbrowne@law.uconn.edu]
> Hello,
>
> My name is Kelly Browne and I am the Head of Reference at the
> University of
> Connecticut School of Law. I am working on an article about the
> top 20 Law
> Schools' LR&W programs.
>
> I have grouped the programs into 5 staffing models:
>
> 1) taught by doctrinal faculty in first-year doctrinal courses (2 schools)
>
> Yale
> Washington & Lee
>
> 2) taught by full-time LR&W faculty (10 schools)
>
> Harvard
> New York University
> University of Michigan
> Cornell
> UC Berkeley
> Duke
> Northwestern
> Georgetown
> University of Texas
> UCLA
>
> 3) taught by fellows (the Bigelow Model) (3 schools)
>
> Stanford
> Columbia
> University of Chicago
>
> 4) taught by students (2 schools)
>
> University of Pennsylvania
> University of Virginia
>
> 5) taught by adjunct faculty (3 schools)
>
> Vanderbilt
> USC
> University of Minnesota
>
> My questions are for law firm librarians whose firms hire students from
> these schools, either as summer clerks or as associates:
>
> 1) Do you notice a difference in the research and writing skills of
> students from schools with different models? For example, do
> students from
> schools that have full time LR&W faculty have better research skills than
> those from schools that have upper-class students teach research?
>
> 2) Assuming there is a difference, does it really matter? That
> is, are the
> students at some of these schools so bright that they can teach themselves
> and catch up relatively quickly? Or do the firms that hire them have
> paralegals or librarians to do the research so they don't need
> those skills?
>
> Please reply to me directly as I am not on Law-Lib. I appreciate any and
> all answers.
>
> Kelly
> kbrowne@law.uconn.edu
>
>
>
>
>
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