In recent years, the legal education obtained a lot of criticism in almost any matters including cost, selectivity, enrollment, student debt burden, and many more. However, practicing lawyers are largely overlooked. Well in fact they constitute a greater portion of the legal ecosystem.

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There are questions on how practicing lawyers can receive necessary training, or shall we say retraining, in order to survive in the new legal world. There are a lot of changes happening in the industry just like the global financial crisis way back 2008. There are already numbers of legal service providers and an influx of in-house legal departments that make it even more accessible for people.

According to a report in Forbes, most of these lawyers are actually prepared, but not in the current legal marketplace, instead they are ready for something that is already vanishing. While in law school, they are surrounded with doctrinal learnings.

Legal delivery is now composed of three legged stools including technological, process, and legal expertise. It was found out that a vast majority have little or no preparation at all when it comes to these aspects. There are also some who have not learned collaboration, financial fluency, leadership, and many other skills at law school. That makes it essential for practicing lawyers to consider re-education by including it in their reform discussion.

Education about the new legal marketplace and where it will be heading should be known not just by law students, but practicing lawyers too. The curriculum of traditional law school remained unchanged for years. The same is true with law firms when it comes to their delivery models and structures since they are not coerced to do so.

On the other hand, law schools are directed by the American Bar Association (ABA) to include experience-based learning and technology courses. According to a report in Lawyers Weekly, University of New South Wales will add a tech course for Juris Doctor Students to provide them with practical experience in using legal technology.

Neota Logic will be providing the software for the course. The students will be required to design programs that will generate legal documents using precedents as well as to provide legal education to queries.

Perhaps, this is just one of the ways to align the training in law school with the constant changes in the marketplace. It is also suggested to tap schools with others to enable students to know the fields of technology, business, communication, and other relevant professions.