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24 Vand. L. Rev. 1083 (1970-1971)
Education of Legal Paraprofessionals: Myths, Realities, and Opportunities, The

handle is hein.journals/vanlr24 and id is 1097 raw text is: The Education of Legal Paraprofessionals:
Myths, Realities, and Opportunities
William P. Statsky*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.  INTRODUCTION  .....................................  1083
II. THRESHOLD QUESTIONS AND DEFINITIONS ............... 1084
III.  RECRUITMENT  CRITERIA  .............................. 1087
IV. TRAINING THE LEGAL ASSISTANT AND THE LAY ADVOCATE.. 1090
A. The Education of Legal Assistants ................. 1091
B. The Education of Lay Advocates ................... 1096
V. THE SITUS, STRUCTURE, AND CONTENT OF PRESENT
TRAINING  PROGRAMS  ................................ 1103
A.  In-House  Training  .............................. 1104
B.  Law  Schools  .................................... 1106
C.  Four- Year  Colleges  ............................. 1111
D. Community and Junior Colleges ................... 1113
E. Miscellaneous Existing Entities .................... 1118
F.  New  Training  Entities ............................ 1118
1. The Ad Hoc Training Institute ................. 1118
2. The Permanent Training Institute .............. 1120
3. The Permanent Training Institute-cum-Union ... 1122
VI. THE SITUS FOR TRAINING: THE FUTURE .............. 1123
VII.  TRAINING  THE  TRAINERS  ............................ 1126
VIII.  CONCLUSION  ..................................... 1129
I. INTRODUCTION
The response to the challenge of training legal paraprofessionals is
in a state of disarray. This is due not so much to poor planning on the
part of the trainers as it is to the inherent difficulty of designing a
training program for a role that as yet has no clear boundary lines. On
the one hand, this difficulty invites the trainer to give full rein to his
imagination in breaking new ground, but on the other hand, the instabil-
ity in the area has been sufficiently great to scare off would-be partici-
pants from a much needed dialogue about how to develop training con-
* Adjunct Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Former Director, Program for Legal
Service Assistants, Columbia Law School. B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967, Boston College; LL.M. 1970,
New York University.
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