Susan Landrum, executive director of academic success and bar programs at Fordham Law School, shares thoughts with Bloomberg Law on how major changes to the bar exam may impact law schools, as the New York State Bar Association pushes for a more rigorous bar exam.
If there are major changes to the bar exam, law schools should have adequate notice so they can prepare their curriculum and their students, said Susan Landrum, executive director of academic success and bar programs at Fordham University School of Law. Classes at Fordham, she said, already incorporate examples of New York law because faculty “know those examples are relevant to students,” and students are advised early on to take law clinics, externships, and other skills-focused courses.
“If I’m trying to make sure students are prepared,” she said, “it’s a lot easier to give someone those expectations three years before they have to have money saved.”
Read “New York Mulls Return of Bar Exam’s In-Person State Component” in Bloomberg Law.