Washington University Professor Robert Kuehn shares via SSRN his work in the Clinical Legal Association Newsletter reporting on the results of a recent 2024-25 survey of 4,000 judges and 4,400 practicing attorneys undertaken by the Committee on Legal Education and Admissions Reform. Roughly half believe that law schools still are not preparing students adequately for law practice. These results track those of earlier studies all of which evaluated recent grads who went through law school after the ABA’s new six experiential credits requirement. Read more here.

Kuehn, Robert R., It’s Again CLEAR: Legal Education Is Still Not Adequately Training Graduates for Practice  (January 02, 2026). Clinical Legal Education Association Newsletter, Vol. 34 (Winter 2025-2026), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6003715 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6003715