Pervasive professionalism must be part of legal education
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The legal profession rather than law students are the law professor's clients, and the profession needs law schools to teach start teaching the profession's fundamental values at the start of the lawyer's career. Professor Deborah L. Rhode, the American Ass'n of Law School's new president, supports the 'pervasive' ethics education, teaching ethics in all substantive areas. Since moral responsibility is fundamental to all legal practice, she believes, it should also occupy a central place in the legal curriculum.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1998
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Defining our calling: focus on professionalism benefits individual lawyers and justice as a whole
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Lawyers need to increase their professionalism to renew public confidence and raise their own self-respect. Professionalism for lawyers includes ethics and integrity, meaningful legal education, a commitment to improve the justice system, service with competence and dedication and civility and respect for authority. Lawyers need to oppose efforts to eliminate free legal services for the poor, support the independence of judiciary and encourage pro bono service.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1997
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Taking professionalism seriously; the president of the American Bar Association outlines six criteria for lawyers to follow in the pursuit of excellence
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Lawyers must commit to the basic values and conduct that make them worthy of being called professionals, for only this will make the state of the legal profession good enough. These principles are ethics and integrity, competence together with independence, meaningful continuing education, obligations to the judicial system, and pro bono service.
Publication Name: ABA Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0747-0088
Year: 1998
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