Attention Nonprofit and Government Lawyers: Take a Brief Survey about Your Law School Experiential Learning Programs
By: Steve Grumm
Below is a link to a short survey that NALP and the NALP Foundation are distributing nationwide to attorneys in nonprofit and government practice. The “Law School Experiential Learning: Opportunities and Benefits” survey is designed to learn:
- how many attorneys in government and nonprofit law offices took experiential learning courses (e.g., clinics, externships, skills courses) as law students; and
- how these courses have contributed to the attorneys’ effectiveness in practice today.
The survey is part of an important discussion about how the legal education curriculum can be shaped to produce the best attorneys. We are especially interested in receiving replies from attorneys who have been in practice for fewer than seven years, but encourage all attorneys to complete the survey.
- Survey link: https://survey.vovici.com/se.ashx?s=17CFEB6018D8CBFC
- Deadline: December 9, 2011
- Time to complete: 5-10 minutes
- Distribute to: Attorneys in nonprofit and government practice. Please distribute this survey far and wide among colleagues.
- Confidentiality: NALP and the NALP Foundation will never release any research that can be used to identify either an individual or an employer. We also will not share an individual attorney’s survey response with their employer.
The survey results will be published in a comprehensive report, expected in Spring 2012. We performed a similar survey among law firm associates last year, and the 2012 report will include comparisons between the two groups’ experiences.
Here is a link to a PDF version of the survey in case attorneys wish to review it before completing or distributing to others: http://tinyurl.com/6sufzr4. (The PDF survey version is provided for review purposes only. The online survey should be completed and submitted.)
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Steve Grumm, NALP’s Director of Public Service Initiatives, at sgrumm@nalp.org or Judy Collins, NALP’s Director of Research, at jcollins@nalp.org. We appreciate you taking the time to assist us in this important effort.
