This article notes several recent studies, which show that the legal profession is not adequately encouraging an ethical professional identity among both students and practitioners of the law. This article synthesizes various recent reports on this topic, and describes methods to encourage continuing reflective engagement, over a career, on the relative importance of income and wealth in light of the other principles of professionalism. Clearly defined elements of “professionalism” are essential for legal educators to provide effective guidance to their students. This article attempts to define and prescribe some of those elements.
Neil Hamilton, Professionalism Clearly Defined, The Professional Lawyer, Vol. 18 No. 4 (2008).
