Article: Redefining the American lawyer.(Best Graduate Schools)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)

When a group made up of Northeastern University professors and law students and of partners from the Boston law firm of Hale & Dorr gathered for a weekend retreat last fall, most were wary. Participants used to encountering each other in a lecture hall or in a job interview were now being put through team-building drills like the "high ropes" exercise: Each person crossed a log suspended three stories above the ground while connected by a rope to two colleagues below who held the rope taut in case the participant lost her footing. The purpose was to encourage trust among those involved in a pilot class at Northeastern, underwritten and co-taught by Hale & Dorr, ...

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