Based on recent studies, this article proposes that ethical professional identity assessments can be integrated with school programs to guide students towards healthy views of their roles as lawyers. The same data can also be used to asses law school outcomes regarding ethical professional identities among students by measuring growth over the course of studentship. The tools granted by recent studies should enable law schools to both generate ideals to strive for in instructing students, and evaluate the effectiveness of the ethical guidance provided to students.
Vema E. Monson & Neil W. Hamilton, Entering Law Students’ Conceptions of an Ethical Professional Identity and the Role of the Lawyer in Society, The Journal of the Legal Profession, Vol. 35(2), 385 (2011)
