Training for Agency Regulatory Lawyers and Staff

2. Move training programs for agency regulatory lawyers back to
Washington, D.C., and expand to cover other career staff. (3)

Legislation should be enacted to move the Legal Education Institute
(LEI) back to Washington, D.C.  LEI should be expanded to non-lawyer
career staff.  Moving LEI back would generate substantial cost savings,
some of which could be used to expand the program.[Endnote 15] Moreover,
the administration should consider whether to incorporate LEI into ACUS,
since a large portion of LEI's courses relate to various aspects of
administrative law and process, which are ACUS's areas of expertise. In
fact, ACUS currently coordinates several LEI courses. LEI's existing
courses, supplemented with more focused ones on, for example,
alternative dispute resolution techniques, could provide some of the
necessary training for federal career regulatory officials.

15. See note 12, above.