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Unpacking The Apprenticeship Of Professional Identity And Purpose: Insights From The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement, Carole Silver, Amy Garver, Lindsay Watkins
Unpacking The Apprenticeship Of Professional Identity And Purpose: Insights From The Law School Survey Of Student Engagement, Carole Silver, Amy Garver, Lindsay Watkins
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Drawing on data from the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, this paper investigates the ways in which law students develop a sense of professional identity and purpose, the third apprenticeship identified by the Carnegie Foundation in its report, Educating Lawyers. The data offer only a first step toward unpacking how students learn about professional identity and purpose. Generally, the findings point to the importance of law school classes for effective learning about legal ethics, and to the role of clinical legal education as a means for deepening the effectiveness of lessons about ethics, professional identity and purpose.
Transnational Legal Practice 2009, Carole Silver, Laurel S. Terry, Ellyn S. Rosen
Transnational Legal Practice 2009, Carole Silver, Laurel S. Terry, Ellyn S. Rosen
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This article identifies some of the most important U.S. and international developments in transnational legal practice and provides citations for further research. The article begins by briefly reviewing the impact of the recession on legal services. The second section focuses on international developments. It identifies some of the ongoing efforts to implement the 2007 U.K. Legal Services Act, including the issuance of the influential Hunt and Smedley reports. It also provides information about law reform initiatives in France, Scotland and Korea. This section of the article also provides information about Canadian and Australian developments regarding admission of foreign applicants and …
Nurturing The Impulse For Justice, Lynne N. Henderson
Nurturing The Impulse For Justice, Lynne N. Henderson
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How Professionals (Including Legal Educators) "Treat" Their Clients, Edwin H. Greenebaum
How Professionals (Including Legal Educators) "Treat" Their Clients, Edwin H. Greenebaum
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Book Review. Lawyers, Law Students And People By Thomas L. Shaffer And Robert S. Redmount, Gene R. Shreve
Book Review. Lawyers, Law Students And People By Thomas L. Shaffer And Robert S. Redmount, Gene R. Shreve
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Manners, Morals And Legal Education, Thomas Ehrlich
Manners, Morals And Legal Education, Thomas Ehrlich
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Many spokesmen for the legal profession have been calling on the law schools to pay more attention to ethical responsibilities, usually meaning manners and civility. But many of today's law students believe that the profession is not meeting some of its public responsibilities. When that problem is squarely faced, with the law schools' help, then good manners should follow.
The Challenge Of The Critical Century, Elvis J. Stahr Jr.
The Challenge Of The Critical Century, Elvis J. Stahr Jr.
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Book Review. Lawyers And The Promotion Of Justice By Esther Lucille Brown, Fowler V. Harper
Book Review. Lawyers And The Promotion Of Justice By Esther Lucille Brown, Fowler V. Harper
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Legal Ethics And The Law Schools, Bernard C. Gavit
Legal Ethics And The Law Schools, Bernard C. Gavit
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What Leaders of Movement for Teaching Professional Ethics in the Law Schools Really Have in Mind Is That These Schools Make Some Intelligent and Wholehearted Attempt to Develop Professional Character-What Can Be Done in This Direction by Such Institutions-Bad Effect of Narrow Point of View of Much Teaching in the Past.