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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law

2000

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Teaching Professional Responsibility In Legal Clinics Around The World, Leah Wortham Jan 2000

Teaching Professional Responsibility In Legal Clinics Around The World, Leah Wortham

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At a March 1999 Colloquium on Clinical Legal Education,1 a group of about 20 people, including a number of law faculty already teaching or planning to teach legal clinics in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union , were asked, "What are the goals that you think are most important for a legal clinic?" The most common answers were teaching about ethics and improving the ethical standards of law practice in participants' respective countries through this focus in legal education.