I think the best essays I ever wrote were on the bar.)Make legal writing classes less goddamn obsessed with draconian word limits and give more room to naturally figuring out how to write coherently and efficiently in what feels like a foreign language at first. Also, be less obsessed with the formal Memo/Brief structures since real-world writing is much more flexible than implied by your writing professor.
If contracts and torts are required, evidence should be required. There should be an entire elective course on Hearsay, considering how much of a trial attorney's life it takes up.
Someone mentioned requiring more state law...but I disagree, because so many people are going to leave the state where they go to law school. I think no state law should be taught. I learned IL law in school and had to self-teach both OR (for the bar) and WA (for a summer job) law and I would rather have never wasted brain bandwidth on IL law. Well, maybe just a little bit to show how any state interacts with Federal.
And definitely close half of law schools.
