Creating "Practice Ready" International Lawyers

A two-part program at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association Section of International Law focused on legal practice and professional competence in the global legal marketplace. The panelists are discussing how to train lawyers in problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, legal research and writing, document drafting, negotiation skills, factual investigation, and other lawyering skills necessary for successful practice.

Pictured here in the first of the two panels are: Professor Diane Penneys Edelman (Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law); Professor Bob Lutz (Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and Former Chair of the ABA Section of International Law); Steven M. Schneebaum (Immediate Past President of the International Law Students' Association, organizers of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition); Melanie Frank (The Global Trade Group PLLC of Washington, D.C.); and Jayanth K. Krishnan (Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington).

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