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The St. Thomas Effect: Law School Mission And The Formation Of Professional Identity, Jennifer Wright
The St. Thomas Effect: Law School Mission And The Formation Of Professional Identity, Jennifer Wright
Jennifer Wright
The legal profession has long been criticized for declining standards of professionalism. Recent studies have pointed to the crucial role of legal education in forming the professional identity of lawyers. Law schools must take seriously their duty to intentionally and thoughtfully shape their students’ sense of what it means to be a lawyer and of how their professional identities will align and coexist with their other personal and ethical commitments. In this article, I examine a case study of one law school, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, whose self-proclaimed raison d’etre is to produce a “different kind …
The Law Firm Caste System, Tiffani N. Darden
The Law Firm Caste System, Tiffani N. Darden
Tiffani N. Darden
Diversity eludes the most prestigious legal employers—the federal judiciary, academia, and elite law firms—despite enlightened scholarship diagnosing the quandaries of workplace equity in professional settings. While recruitment efforts stream attorneys of color into the lower ranks of corporate law firms, management and the profession still grapple with retention challenges. How can the legal profession, including law firms, resolve this problem? In addressing this question, I examine the uncharted intersection between two bodies of legal scholarship: workplace equity theory and the institutional analyses of law firm diversity. The primary data collection method for this study consists of personal interviews with diversity …
The Future Regulation Of The Legal Profession: The Impact Of Treating The Legal Profession As 'Service Providers', Laurel S. Terry
The Future Regulation Of The Legal Profession: The Impact Of Treating The Legal Profession As 'Service Providers', Laurel S. Terry
Laurel S. Terry
In the past fifty years, one has heard debates about whether law is a business, a profession, or both, what these terms mean and whether it matters. Regardless of what one thinks about these debates, there is a new paradigm that must be added to the mix, which is the paradigm of lawyers as "service providers." In the "service providers" paradigm, the legal profession is not viewed as a separate, unique profession entitled to its own individual regulations, but is included in a broader group of "service providers," all of whom can be regulated together. This new paradigm represents a …