Legal Education Consulting
Academics & Curriculum
Legal Education Consulting - Academics & Curriculum
Optimize your approach to bar passage, prepare students for the NextGen Bar Exam, or elevate your curriculum with expert guidance from academic experts.
Explore our Academics & Curriculum solutions:
Academic Program Evaluation
Maximize the rigor of your academic program with our expert guidance using an academic evaluation process uniquely tailored to your needs and goals. Working collaboratively with your school, we’ll review the effectiveness of your academic program (or a subset of it), using data as the underpinning of the review. This holistic evaluation will identify ways to improve the quality of your academic program; provide feedback to faculty and administrators; and ensure that programs, policies, and curricula are producing desired outcomes.
Key benefits:
- Collaboration with law schools to design and implement an evaluation plan
- Comprehensive data collection to thoroughly evaluate your program
- A written report with evaluation rubric and actionable insights
NextGen Bar Readiness Assessment
Prepare your students for the NextGen Bar Exam with a clear understanding of the exam's requirements and actionable guidance on how to tailor your curriculum appropriately. As the exam shifts toward a writing and skills-based assessment, conventional methods of preparing students will no longer suffice. We help you develop the curricula and programming necessary to support your students in meeting the new licensing standards. Specifically, we assist in infusing your curriculum with practical skills training that tracks the competencies tested on NextGen and required for the effective practice of law. With our service, your law school will be well prepared to help students navigate the new bar exam and achieve success.
Key benefits:
- Evaluation of your existing curriculum with an emphasis on NextGen competencies
- Guidance on appropriate assessment tools to measure NextGen readiness
- A roadmap for defining appropriate curricula and educational innovation
Curriculum Mapping
Gain a complete picture of the subject matter and skills being taught at your law school and how they align with educational goals, which might be NextGen Bar Exam subjects and skills, ABA requirements, or best practices in active learning and formative assessment. LEC academic experts will conduct a holistic, unbiased evaluation that includes extensive review of course syllabi, and interviews with faculty and students if desired.
Key benefits:
- Insights to maximize the effectiveness and rigor of your academic program
- Identification of curricular strengths and opportunities
- Baseline data to gauge the effectiveness and extent of improvement measures