New York Law Journal and Above the Law have details about the new rule (pdf here) requiring 50 hours of pro bono. This appears to apply not just to law schools in NY, so this may be the second recent event where the NY system is having a huge impact on legal education nationwide. (NY also requires students to take a stand-alone course in PR, which will impact elite schools, schools with lots of foreign LLM students, and schools that feed into the NY market.)
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September 19, 2012
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The requirement was savaged when it was first announced, but the new rule should not prove all that onerous given that the requirement need not be completed in New York and can be fulfilled in a law school clinic and/or externship. Equally important, it will (somewhat) expand access to legal services and force students to interact with real, live clients prior to beginning practice. I hope other states follow suit.
Posted by: Milan Markovic | September 19, 2012 at 06:00 PM
There is a post on this at Above the Law. Apparently the pro bono can be earned in other states. I still see some problems coordinating all of this.
Posted by: Underwood | September 20, 2012 at 09:46 AM
'Mandatory pro bono' and 'civil Gideon.' Gosh, if only there were a way to simultaneously solve these two issues...
Interesting that the committee report strongly emphasized that (uncompensated) government work counts towards the requirement.
Posted by: Trotsky | September 20, 2012 at 09:28 PM