Posts by raycam

The practice of law, in my opinion and experience, is not ultimately about knowing the law. It’s about delivering a service that solves a problem for a client, in which ...

There’s a trope in the kind of low brow movies I tend to watch – a character looks at a friend that he thinks has arrived just in the nick…

Let me clear what I am talking about here. I’m looking for methodologies that pretty much all successful lawyers use as a core part of their practice. In a larger ...

If there is one thing all US law schools teach, it is how to ‘think like a lawyer.’ Edward Rubin, in his penetrating article Why Law Schools Do Not Teach…

What do lawyers do? What do lawyers need to do well in order to succeed? These are pretty key questions for legal educators, I think. The amazing thing is, we ...

It seems curious today, but Christopher Columbus Langdell viewed his method of teaching law as intensely practical. He had, after all, practiced for what today seems a long time, fifteen ...

An eminent member of the bar, carrying all the intellectual prestige of one who has led a venerated Ivy League institution, trained in the time when lawyer-statesmen walked the earth ...

Today is Teacher's Day in China. That meant I got flowers and a card signed by the students in my Civ Pro class, plus emails from students past and present…

Imagine that once there was a famous golf school, the dean of which believed that everything that needed to be known about golf could be learned on the putting green. ...

Each year I spend the first few minutes of my Civ Pro class, as I expect so many other profs must do, showing my students the death cage match from ...