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10 Elon L. Rev. 239 (2018)
"They're Digging in the Wrong Place:" How Learning Outcomes Can Improve Bar Exams and Ensure Practice Ready Attorneys

handle is hein.journals/elonlr10 and id is 243 raw text is: THEY'RE DIGGING IN THE WRONG PLACE: How LEARNING OUTCOMES CAN IMPROVE BAR EXAMS AND ENSURE PRACTICE READY ATTORNEYS BY DEBRA MOSS CURTIS* I. INTRODUCTION. ..................................... 240 II. OVERVIEW OF THE BAR EXAM NATIONALLY ...... ........ 242 A. Bar Exam Disparity. ...................... ..... 244 B. The Bar exam is a poor predictor ofpractice/lawyering skills...................................... 249 C. The drop in overall scores is pushing the law school curriculum away from those practice lawyer skills- experiential learning-and toward test preparation subjects............ .................. ..... 252 III. LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND TEACHING NECESSARY COMPETENCIES FOR NEW ATTORNEYS ................... 259 IV. LEARNING OUTCOMES. ......................... ...... 267 A. Learning Outcomes come to Legal Education................... 268 V. CONCLUSIONS ................................ ...... 281 *Debra Moss Curtis is a Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Col- lege of Law. Special thanks to Dean Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, of Stetson University College of Law, to John Berry, of the Florida Bar, for developing concepts in Vision 2016, to Samantha Gozlan, NSU College of Law class of 2019, for her technical assistance, and to Irma for allowing this work to be completed. 239