Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2022
Journal Title
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
ISSN
8756-0801
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the nation’s approach to work and learning. Law schools, law firms, courts, and administrative agencies abruptly closed their offices and quickly reimagined how to perform their daily functions remotely. Many of these institutions have plans to maintain aspects of remote operations and services post-pandemic. With this in mind, the authors of this Article conducted a survey of law school clinical faculty during the winter of 2021 to better understand how clinicians pivoted their instruction and practice using technology during the pandemic. The authors use the survey results to show how the COVID-19 experience positions clinical programs to be leaders in answering the growing calls to incorporate technical competency into legal education. The authors draw on the experiences of clinicians during the pandemic to demonstrate how law practice technology can be deliberately and thoughtfully integrated into existing clinical pedagogy and practice. The Article concludes by urging clinicians to build on the current momentum to embrace what they call “the technology of lawyering” as an indispensable component of clinical education.
First Page
109
Last Page
139
Num Pages
31
Volume Number
68
Issue Number
1
Publisher
Washington University School of Law
Recommended Citation
Sarah R. Boonin & Luz E. Herrera,
From Pandemic to Pedagogy: Teaching the Technology of Lawyering in Law Clinics,
68
Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y
109
(2022).
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