Professionalism in the 21st Century
The Practice
March/April 2015
What it means to be an ethical legal professional is an increasingly pressing question in a time of intense global competition, corporate scandal, and public mistrust.
March/April 2015
Professionalism in the 21st Century
What happened to the ethical dimension of practicing law? How can lawyers act ethically, even in hypercompetitive markets?
Doing Good While Doing Well
There are ways to ensure compliance, limit wrongdoing, and cultivate a culture of integrity in legal practice. In this article, we provide recommendations for doing so from Ben Heineman, Jr, and the Center on the Legal Profession.
Ethical Values in the Marketplace
In the 1980s, Slater & Gordon faced a crisis: its core worker’s compensation business had suffered as a result of changing Australian regulation, and it lacked core leadership. Partner Jonathan Rothfield took over as sole proprietor for four years while he reoriented and expanded the business, making other partners non-equity. Learn more from this Harvard Law School case study.
Learning the Business Side of Law; Practice-Ready Graduates?
Facing pressure to develop and succeed in a shorter time frame than their predecessors, associates in large law firms are seeking marketing and business development skills to get a leg up on the competition. Educators and law graduates agree the change is long overdue.
Preparing Lawyers for Practice
Educators increasingly believe law school education needs a refresher course of its own. In the complex global and technological practice of the 21st century, they say, law school education should combine theoretical and practical teaching, incorporate more business skills, and focus on inculcating a range of leadership, ethical, and reasoning skills.
The Changing Nature of Professionalism
Rakesh Khurana is one of the world’s leading thinkers on professions and their role in society. For this issue of The Practice, Khurana sat down for a conversation with David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession, on professionalism and ethics in business and the law.
