The lawyer/client relationship is central to legal education, says Geoffrey Bindman
In 1982 I took a sabbatical in . I taught for four months at the of , (UCLA) . There I pursued my interest in antidiscrimination law, which was much more developed in the than in . But, having practised as a solicitor for more than 20 years, I was naturally interested in the practice of law as well as theory. By contrast with law schools at that time in , which seemed completely detached from the legal profession, UCLA took an interest in what its students were likely to do after they graduated. Practical training was the province of the “clinical program”, one element of which was participation by students in the client counselling competition.
THE CASE METHOD
This had been started by a lawyer called Louis M Brown, a successful general and commercial practitioner. He had also taught for several years part-time at the law school of the .
