![handle is hein.journals/syllabus30 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar - Volume XXX, Number 1 ° Winter 1999
28th Annual Deans' Workshop
IFe Twenty-Eighth Annual
I eans' Workshop was held
February 4-6, 1999, at the
Beverly Hills Hilton in Beverly Hills
California. Dean John Attanasio,
Southern Methodist University
School of Law; Dean R. Lawrence
Dessem, Mercer University School
of Law; and Dean Stephen Zamora,
University of Houston Law Center
were the cochairpersons for the
Deans' Workshop this year. The
ABA and those who participated in
the conference owe a deal of grati-
tude for their efforts in coordinating
a wonderful conference.
The Deans' Workshop is designed
to be a candid and off-the-record
exchange of the views and expres-
sions among the deans of ABA
approved law schools. The meet-
ings are closed meetings and no
minutes are taken. Only deans of
ABA approved law schools, the
Chairperson of the Section of Legal
Dean John Attanasio, Dean R. Lawrence
Southern Methodist Dessem, Mercer
University School of Law University School of Law
Education and Admissions to the
Bar, the Consultant, Deputy
Consultant, President of AALS,
Executive Director of AALS,
Chairperson of LSAC and Executive
Director of LSAC, were in atten-
dance during the Deans' Workshop.
Typically, between 110 and 150 of
the 181 deans attend the workshop
annually. This year's conference
was no different with approximately
110 number of deans attending.
This year's conference, was
divided into seven panels: Panel I:
The Law School's Role within the
University Planning Process, Panel
II: Strategic Planning within the Law
School, Panel III: The Structure of
Technological Decision Making,
Panel IV: Budgeting for Information
Technology, Panel V: Improving the
Use of Information Technology,
Panel VI: Technological Planning for
the Future, and Panel VII: Planning
One's Deanship. The ABA would
Dean Stephen Zamora,
University of Houston
Law Center
like to thank all those who partici-
pated in this event. We hope to see
you next year. ]
Validation of
Standards
Chapters 3 and 4-
Preliminary Proposals and
Request for Comments
The Standards Review Committee
convened on December 19-20, 1998,
at its regularly scheduled meeting
to continue its systematic review of
the validity and reliability of the
Standards. At this meeting the
Committee focused on Chapter 3 of
the Standards. Since Chapter 3 con-
cerns the Program of Legal
Education many people feel that it
is the most important chapter of the
Standards. After distributing their
proposals to a variety of constituen-
cies of legal education such as
deans, chief justices, and bar exam-
iners the Standards Review
Committee convened again on
January 30, 1999 to discuss chapter
3 and the comments received about
the Committee proposals. In addi-
tion, the Committee began to review
Chapter 4.
At the January 30, 1999 meeting,
the committee revised its earlier
proposed changes to Chapter 3. For
your convenience, the current pro-
posed changes made by the
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