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What is more important in legal education – teaching professional lawyering skills or teaching legal doctrine? The answer is that both are needed to effectively educate a future lawyer. Knowledge of legal doctrine will go a long way to preparing law students to pass...Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
The legal profession is a career that is based on communication. Lawyers talk to their clients, to the courts and to opposing counsel when they are negotiating across the table or in a mediation setting when they are trying to resolve a case. That is why St. Francis...Jan 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Professor Jeff Price has prevailed in his appeal to the Ninth Circuit in White v. Baca. The Ninth Circuit Appellate Court reversed and remanded the case on appeal. The matter was argued on January 9, 2017, while Professor Price before Circuit Judges Kozinski,...Jan 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Los Angeles attorney Jim Ham spoke to St. Francis School of Law students in the latest installment in the program’s Career Insights. Mr. Ham practices with the law firm Pansky Markle Ham LLP in Los Angeles, and specializes in representing attorneys. The firm provides...Jan 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Upper level students at St. Francis have completed their oral appellate arguments over the past week in LAW871 Advanced Legal Writing. The students were guided in preparing for the arguments by Professor Jeff Price, a California Appellate Specialist, and Professor...