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The lawyer education is far too important to be left entirely to law schools.No school ,regardless of how good it may be, is capable of teaching the potential lawyer all there is to know about the profession(and business) of law. Having said that, it is important to add that a lawyer education is also too important to be left entirely to practicing lawyer’s .An excellent legal education requires a balance of classroom, courtroom, and office experience. This is especially true of the education of trial lawyer. For generations, law schools have not succeeded in their mission to educate trial lawyers. The law school at which I teach –Harvard-bears some of responsibility .back in the 19 century, its dean Christopher Columbus Langdell, developed the appellate-case method of law teaching. Most law schools still employ this method of teaching substantive law, legal doctrine, legal theory, and procedure. Emphasis is placed on appellate decision-that is, opinions rendered by courts of appeals, primarily on issue of law. That is understandable, since American is largely judge-made, and our appeals courts are the primary makers of law. Legislatures, of course enact statutes but statutes generally are very broad application and rarely resolve specific disputes. What American law schools often do not teach –at least do not teach well enough -are the basic skills of advocacy; how to prepare a case ,how to examine a witness, how to argue before a jury, how to write a brief, and how to argue before appellate judges. one of the understandable reasons why law professors do not emphasize these skills is that many of them simply do not have experience or expertise in them. Law professors are selected, at least at many schools, not because of their as practicing lawyers, but because of their reputation as legal scholars and teachers.(in fact many law professors make excellent advocates since classroom teaching bears some striking resemblances to courtroom advocacy, law teaching is no