Salary Increases for City Law Firm Associates
The seasonal rounds of salary rises for law firm associates are flooding in. The UK City firms are paying newly-qualifieds around £64,000, with one-year qualifieds getting between £66,000 and £70,000....
View ArticleLaw School as Boot Camp (Greece)
My niece is attending law school in Greece, something which can only be described as a chaotic experience. The high point is the snakes in the library. Last year was her first year and it was bedeviled...
View ArticleIs It Worthwhile?
I’ve always had ambivalent feelings about teaching. There are born teachers who love it, but I became an academic primarily to pursue research. For me teaching was the “price” I paid to be part of the...
View ArticleProfessional Responsibility/Legal Ethics
While I am at the University of Miami Law School I am teaching Professional Responsibility, a compulsory course for law students. It takes students through the law governing lawyers and the rules of...
View ArticleGiving Papers at Miami
One of the attractive features of going somewhere new is receiving fresh feedback on one’s ideas and research. And that’s intensified when one leaves one’s home turf and crosses continents.I was asked...
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Podcast on Rise in Fees for Legal Practice Course
Charon QC interviewed me today. Our conversation is available in podcast from Charon QC.Lawcast 113: Professor John Flood on the rise in fees for the Legal Practice CourseToday I am talking to...
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Are Lawyers Ethical or Can They Be?
There was a do tonight at the Law Society for a couple of friends of mine, Kim Economides and Justine Rogers, who were presenting report “Preparatory Ethics Training for Future Solicitors”. It’s a...
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Can Legal Education Be Globalized?
(Law School in Buenos Aires. Thanks to FIERnando) Law is parochial yet it plays a considerable role in globalization. With few exceptions legal education has continued listing towards the local away...
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The Law School/University Grant/Bursary Game
The changes to UK university funding are about to unleash myriad unintended consequences that the UK government has no doubt not thought of. Fees and bursaries are meant to go together like horses and...
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Experimental Legal Education and Law Without Walls
(thanks to wikipedia for this) “Success of law schools depends on rate of experimentation“, said George Kembel, co-founder of Stanford D School. With the dire state of legal education in the US right...
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