Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Status
Accepted
Abstract
It is appropriate to want lawyers to be mature, moral people and to help legal education reinforce those qualities. It is also appropriate to be sure students understand lawyers’ fiduciary responsibilities and the ways lawyers fall short of meeting them. It only confuses work on those issues, however, to call them part of teaching "professionalism." Law is not a "profession" as that term has traditionally been used. Calling law a profession does not help understanding the challenges lawyers face.
GW Paper Series
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-11; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-11
SSRN Link
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2007296
Recommended Citation
Thomas D. Morgan, Calling Law a 'Profession' Only Confuses Thinking about the Challenges Lawyers Face, 9 U. St. Thomas L.J. 542 (2011).