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Preparing Law Students For Meaningful, Healthy Lives As Lawyers, Bari Burke
Preparing Law Students For Meaningful, Healthy Lives As Lawyers, Bari Burke
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This article addresses the question of how to determine guidelines that set professional values for law students. In the article, the author describes her law school seminar class that focuses on lawyers' values, lives, and work and helps students explore four particular questions: 1) what are the sources of lawyers' meaning and satisfaction, as well as stress; 2) in what ways do law schools and the profession transmit professional values and attitudes and create among law students a commitment to those values; 3) what values and attitudes do law students need to cultivate personally to find meaning and satisfaction in …
If Medical Schools Can Do It, Why Can't We?, Bari Burke
If Medical Schools Can Do It, Why Can't We?, Bari Burke
Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings
This articles explores the idea of implementing "white coat ceremonies" for entering law students similar to what medical schools conduct for their entering medical students. The article first describes the medical school ceremony and then addresses three primary objections that critics have raised concerning the ceremony.
Lawyers Must Follow Their Inner Compasses, Bari Burke
Lawyers Must Follow Their Inner Compasses, Bari Burke
Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings
This article reflects on the suicide of a Montana lawyer and offers some assumptions from Larry Krieger, a clinical law teacher and former litigator, on how lawyers can develop workable approaches to living and improving their professional lives.