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Cat Moon

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Jan 23

Yes, some people who go to law school would like to practice in the public interest.

But instead, they end up going into corporate law because they have big loans to pay or other financial obligations.

What I see and hear from students more often is not this, however.

What I see and hear is that law students want a wider range of options for using their law degree in ways that support their goals, values, aspirations, the quality of life they seek.

This may be serving the public.

Or not. Folks want to do good with their degree, yes.

But,

that doesn't necessarily mean following the traditional public interest paths, either.

Corporate law is not the only sector of the profession that suffers from being stuck in the Second Industrial Revolution (a time that ended 100+ years ago but still dictates our profession).

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Cat Moon

@inspiredcat

Nov 28, 2021

@kathrynemyoung

This article by @kathrynemyoung considers the upstream causes of the decline in mental health that starts in law school.

Prof. Young talked to law students to discover and document the changes they experienced in motivation, happiness, hopefulness & overall mental health 👇

during 1L in law school.

"Students enter law school with unexceptional psychological profiles: on average, they are no more or no less happy or healthy than demographically similar peers who are not in law school."

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"But by graduation, they emerge less intrinsically motivated, less hopeful, and less happy. On top of this, they carry new mental health problems."

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Cat Moon

@inspiredcat

Nov 27, 2021

https://twitter.com/TheLSSSE/status/1464689488098123783

AND, given the current HIGH rate of high stress/anxiety amongst law students, should we not be considering upstream causes as well?

Apparently, we've known since the 1960s that the way we educate lawyers is fraught.

Yet, here we are. Educating lawyers like it's the 1960s.

https://twitter.com/TheLSSSE/status/1464689488098123783

"The study of mental health of law students can be traced back to the late 1960s when research published in the Wisconsin Law Review found that 'failure anxiety' has been a serious impediment for first-year law students’ ability to study.

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Research from the 1980s all the way to 2016 has shown that the stress and anxiety is not only a problem found among 1Ls, but also one that continues throughout the law school journey."

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Cat Moon

@inspiredcat

Jan 11, 2021

@vanderbiltlaw

Yes, I'm laser focused on how lawyers lead—how we *learn* to lead—as I prep to teach just this to @vanderbiltlaw students, and . . .

As I read @jaesunum's post on @Legal_Ev, all I can think: we are failing to train lawyers to make these important moral (yes, moral) decisions.👇

I genuinely question whether we train law students and lawyers to operate in the way Jae urges us to.

Note, I agree with Jae: "Big business and their legal counsel have the opportunity to steer capitalism to a gentler and fairer recovery, but the clock is ticking.
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The reckoning we face in the post-pandemic reality is not one of cancel culture but widespread calamity and increasing risk to our lives and livelihoods."

Both the opportunity and obligation (yes, I believe it is an obligation) we in law face are enormous.

And,

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Cat Moon

@inspiredcat

Sep 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/jordanlcouch/status/1304173286260056065

We're steeped in racist and classist exclusion and perhaps those who now insist the exam must be protected at all costs don't realize this.

Well, you do now. The truth is being told.

With this truth comes power and incentive to make change NOW.

No reason exists to wait.

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https://twitter.com/jordanlcouch/status/1304173286260056065

"South Carolina offered diploma privilege until 1950. When the first class of African Americans was set to graduate from law school, a bill was proposed in the South Carolina General Assembly to require bar passage for the purpose

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of blocking 'negroes and some undesirable whites' from entering the profession. This was not unique. The creation of the bar exam coincides with the first Civil Rights Act in 1875. After three Black lawyers were unintentionally granted membership in the ABA in 1914,

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Cat Moon

@inspiredcat

Nov 19, 2019

#thread on the perils of workplace knowledge-hiding:

"firms with a high-trust environment, where employees can collaboratively and transparently share knowledge, gain stock returns two to three times higher than the industry average and have 50% lower turnover rates"

"When we deliberately withhold or conceal information from each other, we are doing something called 'knowledge hiding,' an action that can take several different forms."

"We may pretend to be uninformed, provide inaccurate information to those who ask us, promise to share information but never intend to, or find excuses to tell people that we can’t share when we actually can."

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