Methods Called Basic For Future Lawyers

Harvard's greatest contribution to today's law students, "the leaders in the legal and business life of the twenty-first century," will be in training them in methods and techniques, according to Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School.

Many of the students graduating this June, he noted in his annual report, will be at the peak of their professional eminence and responsibility in 2001. "At that time, the Dean commented, "they will probably draw little from the specific information which they received here. [However,] they will be still drawing heavily on their basic legal training," including "the utility of accurate lawyer-like English composition."

Law students will find that their education will have to be continued long after they have left Harvard, the Dean noted. "The materials with which lawyers work change rapidly. Lawyers ... must be students all their lives. The greatest contribution which the Law School may be able to make to them is training in the methods of using these materials so that they may effectively face and resolve new problems."