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Law Students Value Legal Research

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Law librarian Mary Whisner (U of Washington Law) reported on the AALL Academic SIS listserv today the resulted of a survey done by The ABA Section of Litigation of law students (they apparently do regular surveys). Although the response rate is admittedly low (172), the students who responded indicated a strong vote of support for legtal research:

Which of the following first-year courses has proven to be the most valuable to you during your time in law school?

40% of respondents answered with Legal Research and Writing (with the next highest response being contracts at 17%)

Which of the following do you expect to be most useful to you during the remainder of your law school career?

48% of respondents answered with Legal Research and Writing (with the next highest response being Civil Procedure at
21%).

Too bad the University of Toronto Faculty of Law does not teach legal research and writing in first year . . . .

Update: I forgot to post the URL for the ABA survey – it is here.

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  1. michael lines
    March 16th, 2006 at 4:41 pm

    Hi Ted,

    Interesting, and a confirmation of what most law librarians know already. Every year in Edmonton we have a sell-out for Headstart, a 2-day legal research seminar for graduating law students. (see http://www.edmontonlawlibraries.ca/HeadStartProgram.htm).