Teaching Lawyers to Think like Leaders: Professional Identity & Law School Curriculum

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Patrick Emery Longan et. al., A Virtue Ethics Approach to Professional Identity: Lessons for the First Year and Beyond, 89 UMKC L. Rev. 645 (2021)

Louis D. Bilionis, Bringing Purposefulness to the American Law School's Support of Professional Identity Formation, 14 U. St. Thomas L.J. 480 (2018).

Teague, Leah, Growing Number of Leadership Programs and Courses Supports Professional Identity Formation (October 12, 2021). forthcoming in Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 62, 2021

Should law schools be required to train students in bias, racism, and cross-cultural competency?

The American Bar Association is asking legal educators and the public to weigh in.

While the American Bar Association's recent amendments to its law school accreditation standards around student well-being could have gone further, legal industry employers have much to learn from the ABA's move and the well-being movement that continues to gain traction in law schools, says David Jaffe at the American University Washington College of Law.