Title: Engaged Client-Centered Representation and the Moral Foundations of the Lawyer-Client Relationship
Abstract: Thank you for inviting me here to speak with you today about engaged client-centered representation. I am going to talk about the continuities and discontinuities between the way lawyers and clients are viewed in the two worlds in which I live: the world of legal ethics scholarship and the world of clinical legal education. It is fitting that I get the opportunity to have this conversation at Hofstra, because Hofstra is a place with a rich tradition and history in both areas. I begin with a story that goes back to the beginning of legal ethics as we know it today: before the ABA promulgated the Model Rules of Professional Conduct; before Professional Responsibility courses were required in law schools; before states required mandatory CLE credits in ethics; and before legal scholars wrote systematically about the relationship between lawyers’ duties and lawyers’ roles in society and in our system of justice. Before that whole substructure of legal ethics analysis had been constructed, lawyers worked out the details of their professional responsibilities to clients and to the public in conversation with other lawyers engaged in the same kind of practice, trying to figure out together what it meant to be good lawyers. The story is about the consequences of a conversation among lawyers about their professional responsibilities. In the early 1960s, a
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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