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Am Law Daily again on April 11. In “And
Now for Something Completely Different: The Future of Legal Education,”
assistant editor Irene Plagianos covered a
New York Law School conference on the
legal profession’s need for change. But to
suggestions that legal education have a
more practical focus, Morrison & Foerster
chairman Keith Wetmore argued that the
traditional law school curriculum “fosters
creative thinking.” Putting too much emphasis on skills, Wetmore said, will “take
away thoughts untethered to the particular needs of a client on a particular day.”
“Thank you, Keith Wetmore, for injecting
a note of sanity into the discussion. Giving
students more practical skills is a good idea,
but going too far in that direction is not.
Lawyers are not plumbers (no offense to
plumbers). The best lawyers are those with
a combination of intellectual, creative, and
practical skills. Let’s not forget that.”
Reacting to the conference overall, Jay
Dee wrote:
“(1) Let’s shut down 10–20 law school
diploma mills; and ( 2) let’s stop outsourcing America’s legal work to India.”
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CORRECTIONS
The Corporate Scorecard poster [April]
should have ranked Shearman & Sterling
at number three on the M&A Counsel to
Investment Advisers chart with 17 deals. To
see the reranked chart, go to americanlawyer
.com/corporatescorecard.
In the Big Deals section [April], we
neglected to mention that Davies Ward
Phillips & Vineberg was Canadian regu-
latory counsel to Terra Industries Inc. on
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.’s $4.7 bil-
lion acquisition of Terra, the proposed
$4.1 billion acquisition of Terra by Yara
International ASA, and Terra’s proposed
acquisition of a 50 percent interest in
Agrium Inc.’s Carseland, Alberta, ni-
trogen facility. Davies’s lawyers include
partners from the Toronto office, John
Bodrug, Richard Elliott, and Christopher
Margison.
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