Participating in law reviews may improve legal writing skills, it may enhance law students’ employment opportunities, and it may be an exhilarating carnival ride for Bluebook nerds (such as myself). But results from Bloomberg Law’s Law School Preparedness Survey suggest that it might not be as useful for preparing law students to actually practice law as conventional wisdom presumes.
Fewer than 1 in 4 practicing attorneys said that the incoming attorneys to their firms who had been on law review were better prepared to practice law than those who weren’t.
Law Review Is Only One Page of the Bluebook
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