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Connection, Capacity And Morality In Lawyer-Client Relationships: Dialogues And Commentary, Ann Shalleck, Robert Dinerstein, Stephen Ellmann, Isabelle Gunning

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

As important, and difficult, as it is to offer new law students clear and helpful frameworks for the interpersonal work of lawyering, do­ing so is only part of what a clinical textbook may aspire to. In our textbook-in-progress, we hope to offer both frameworks and support for students' sense of the incompleteness of every framework and for their recognition of the need for careful, flexible response to each in­dividual client. Even care and flexibility by themselves are not enough, however, and every text must choose which aspects of law­yer-client relationships it will emphasize most. In the sections that fol­low, we …