Reflections On Purpose And Professional Identity Formation, 2024 Mercer University School of Law
Reflections On Purpose And Professional Identity Formation, Harmony Decosimo
Mercer Law Review
I am very grateful to Professor Daisy Floyd for starting this important conversation about the role of purpose in professional identity formation, and for inviting me to participate in it. As I know my co-panelists agree, this is an important conversation not simply to us as lawyers, but as humans, trying to help each other figure out how to live good, meaningful lives.
I think what might be most useful in my response to Professor Floyd is to turn at least initially from the theoretical to the personal and practical by offering some insight into my own experience with purpose …
Putting The Lawyer First: Framing Well-Being In Law As An Ethical Dilemma, 2024 Mercer University School of Law
Putting The Lawyer First: Framing Well-Being In Law As An Ethical Dilemma, Aric Short
Mercer Law Review
A disturbingly high percentage of our students continue to be unwell. In the most recent and comprehensive survey of law student well-being in 2021, almost 70% of law students responded that, in the past twelve months, they believed they needed to seek help for emotional or mental health problems. Embedded screening tools in the survey suggested that 34% of respondents were clinically depressed and 54% suffered from clinical anxiety. 44% of respondents reported being drunk in the past thirty days, 33% had engaged in binge drinking in the preceding two weeks, and 38% had smoked marijuana in the past twelve …
What About Us? How Law Schools Can Help Historically Underrepresented Law Students Develop Their Professional Identities, 2024 Mercer University School of Law
What About Us? How Law Schools Can Help Historically Underrepresented Law Students Develop Their Professional Identities, David A. Grenardo
Mercer Law Review
Talking about race, gender, and sexual orientation can be painful, messy, and difficult. This country’s history of discrimination and violence against historically underrepresented, marginalized, excluded individuals—racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQIA+, those living with disabilities, the socioeconomically disadvantaged/lower class—makes these topics fraught with controversy and risk. We can easily offend someone accidentally when we try to address these topics even with the best of intentions. For example, some people may get nervous trying to figure out whether to use the words African-American, Black, BIPOC, person of color, or all of the above when discussing these topics and referring to someone …
The Rule Of Law, The Lawyer’S Role As A Public Citizen, And Professional Identity: How Fostering The Development Of Professional Identity Can Help Law Schools Address The Crisis Facing American Democracy, 2024 Mercer University School of Law
The Rule Of Law, The Lawyer’S Role As A Public Citizen, And Professional Identity: How Fostering The Development Of Professional Identity Can Help Law Schools Address The Crisis Facing American Democracy, Kendall Kerew
Mercer Law Review
American democracy is in crisis. The January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol must serve as a renewed wake-up call for the legal profession. We can no longer keep our heads down, focused solely or even primarily on serving our clients, without being mindful that what we do every day as lawyers starts and ends with our duty to uphold the rule of law and our system of justice. We must acknowledge that lawyers are the ones who have put democracy at risk. Lawyers are the ones who, in their role as zealous advocates, attempted to overturn the 2020 …
Bad Therapy: Conceptualizing The Teaching Of “Thinking Like A Lawyer” As Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 2024 Washburn University School of Law
Bad Therapy: Conceptualizing The Teaching Of “Thinking Like A Lawyer” As Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Chelsea Baldwin
St. Mary's Law Journal
Law students and lawyers experience mental illness and substance abuse at higher rates than the general population and other learned professions. This is bad for an individual’s wellbeing as well as their clients and society because mental illness and substance abuse increases stress which in turn decreases effective decision-making and judgment, and in worst case scenarios leads to attrition as individuals choose death by suicide which has cascading social and economic impacts. This Article identifies practices in legal education that likely combine in a causal mechanism, although not a sole cause, to the higher rates of mental illness and substance …
Ethical Algorithms: Navigating Ai In Legal Practice For A Just Jurisprudence, 2024 Georgia State University College of Law
Ethical Algorithms: Navigating Ai In Legal Practice For A Just Jurisprudence, Bree'ara Murphy, Rachel Gadra Rankin, Joseph Rios
Law Review Blog Posts
Exploring the professional obligations practitioners may face in light of developing AI technology by examining state and federal model rule language, current judicial treatment of AI, and AI best practices.
Generative Artificial Intelligence And The Practice Of Law: Impact, Opportunities, And Risks, 2024 University of Minnesota Law School
Generative Artificial Intelligence And The Practice Of Law: Impact, Opportunities, And Risks, John Villasenor
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology
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Foreword, 2024 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Foreword, Caroline Faye Radell, Udhanth Mallasani
Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés
No abstract provided.
Beyond “Hard” Skills: Teaching Outward- And Inward-Facing Character-Based Skills To 1ls In Light Of Aba Standard 303(B)(3)’S Professional Identity Requirement, 2024 Brooklyn Law School
Beyond “Hard” Skills: Teaching Outward- And Inward-Facing Character-Based Skills To 1ls In Light Of Aba Standard 303(B)(3)’S Professional Identity Requirement, Marni Goldstein Caputo, Kathleen Luz
Brooklyn Law Review
Newly adopted American Bar Association Standard 303(b)(3) requires law schools to provide “substantial opportunities to students for . . . the development of professional identity” throughout their three-year legal education. For 1Ls, the ideal place to start this process is in their lawyering skills classrooms, which is our domain at Boston University School of Law. Professional identity exploration necessarily requires students to look inward and outward to reflect upon their own role in the legal system and how they interact with others. In our classrooms, we divide what have been referred to as “soft” skills into two distinct categories—outward-facing and …
A Model Of Evidence-Based Practice For Law Schools To Improve System Outcomes, 2024 Nova Southeastern University
A Model Of Evidence-Based Practice For Law Schools To Improve System Outcomes, Chance Meyer
St. Mary's Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Leadership And Vision: Jonte T. Mckenzie L'24, 2024 Roger Williams University School of Law
Law School News: Leadership And Vision: Jonte T. Mckenzie L'24, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Preliminary Injunctions Prevail Through The Winter Of Buckhannon, 2024 Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Preliminary Injunctions Prevail Through The Winter Of Buckhannon, Kaitlan Donahue
Northwestern University Law Review
The Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976 allows courts to award attorneys’ fees to the “prevailing party” in any “action or proceeding” enforcing several civil rights-related statutes. Yet, this statute fails to define the term “prevailing party,” leaving the courts to define it over time. The Supreme Court’s piecemeal, vague definitions of “prevailing party” have only complicated the legal landscape and caused more uncertainty for potential plaintiffs and their prospective attorneys. Without the relief offered by recovery of attorneys’ fees, private litigants may be dissuaded from pursuing meritorious litigation due to overwhelming costs of representation, and attorneys may …
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Essay/Art Contest 2024, 2024 Roger Williams University
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Essay/Art Contest 2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Law School News: The Power Of Yes: Stefanie Fischer L'24, 2024 Roger Williams University School of Law
Law School News: The Power Of Yes: Stefanie Fischer L'24, Suzi Morales
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
5th Annual Women In Law Leadership Lecture, 2024 Roger Williams University
5th Annual Women In Law Leadership Lecture, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Rooted In Commitment: Geovanny Amaya L'24, 2024 Roger Williams University School of Law
Law School News: Rooted In Commitment: Geovanny Amaya L'24, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Access To Justice And The Legal Profession: Three Questions, 2024 Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Access To Justice And The Legal Profession: Three Questions, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Articles & Book Chapters
There is an increasing recognition – from all sectors of the legal system, including the former Chief Justice of Canada – that justice is in crisis. Even though we have some of the best judges, lawyers, and law schools in the world, delays in the civil, criminal, and family justice systems are massive and increasing. Costs of legal help are going up. An increasing number of people are trying to represent themselves. Legal aid is available only for the least well-off and only for a limited range of services. Many communities feel alienated and do not see themselves represented by …
Rwu Law Alumni Newsletter April 2024, 2024 Roger Williams University
Rwu Law Alumni Newsletter April 2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law
RWU Law
No abstract provided.
Changemakers: Terrence Haas : Juris Doctorate : Adventures In Law, 2024 Roger Williams University
Changemakers: Terrence Haas : Juris Doctorate : Adventures In Law, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Use Of Force In Policing: Do Female Police Officers Use Unjustifiable Force As Often As Male Officers?, 2024 Jacksonville State University
Use Of Force In Policing: Do Female Police Officers Use Unjustifiable Force As Often As Male Officers?, Carma Dobson
Theses
Use of force (UOF) is a common practice in policing. My study focuses on the disposition of the use of unjustifiable force in policing. Utilization of pre-existing data with 5,771 use of force incidents from the New Orleans, Louisiana police department in the years of 2016-2021 produces an answer to the research question: Do female police officers use unjustifiable force as often as male officers? The chi-square test of independence results in my study indicates that there is no statistical difference between males and females.