Legal profession

Chapter 1 MY DECISION TO BECOME A LAWYER was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. I was a young teenager, clumsy, embarrassed by my awkwardness, frustrated with life, horrified of puberty, about to be shipped off to a military school by my father for insubordination. He was an ex-Marine who believed boys should live by the crack of the whip. I’d developed a quick tongue and an aversion to discipline, and his solution was simply to send me away. It was years before I forgave him. He was also an industrial engineer who worked seventy hours...

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The Professional Responsibility course (by whatever name it is called at your school) is about the law and ethics that govern relationships lawyers have with clients, other lawyers, the profession, the justice system, and the public. It is the only law course in the typical law school curriculum that is about what lawyers do. In Torts, Contracts, and so on, you study law that affects clients' relationships with others and that lawyers interact with as an expert a step removed from the actual effect of the law.

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