Kathryn Rubino chats with Jackie Gardina, Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Colleges of Law, about systemic change, legal education, and the hurdles to entering the legal profession. Gain insights on LGBTQ rights, bar exam reform, and advice for future law students. A must-listen for those interested in modern legal challenges!

Highlights

• From clinical therapy to a passion for law.
• Systemic change as a career theme.
• Multiple pathways to change: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
• Legal battles and the evolution of rights.
• Repeal challenges for LGBTQIA rights.
• Voting rights history as a movement.
• State-level demonization of LGBTQ youth.
• Federalism’s effect on state rights.
• Bar exam as an exclusionary mechanism.
• Disconnect between bar exam and legal practice.
• COVID as an inflection point for bar reform.
• The push for bar exam reform in California.
• Critique of law school’s alignment with practice.

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Links and Resources

• https://www.calbar.ca.gov/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Archived-Committees/Blue-Ribbon-Commission
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-optimism-in-action-conversations-with-lawyers/id1651930609
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-gardina-78907b8/

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