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Legal Informatics: Metamorphosing Law Students into Legal Professionals Based on Empirical Evidence of Attorneys’ Information Seeking Behaviors*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2019
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The lack of more practical pedagogy prevents law students from changing and extending their cognitive maps until they have a real job, where they do research, draft documents, advocate, counsel, and negotiate. This study investigates the extension and enlargement of young lawyers’ cognitive maps and their process to resolve a difficult or uncertain situation.
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