The Formation of Professional Identity: The Path from Student to Lawyer

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Synopsis
Becoming a lawyer is about much more than acquiring knowledge and technique. As law students learn the law and acquire some basic skills, they are also inevitably forming a deep sense of themselves in their new roles as lawyers. That sense of self – the student’s nascent professional identity – needs to take a particular form if the students are to fulfil the public purposes of lawyers and find deep meaning and satisfaction in their work. In this book, Professors Patrick Longan, Daisy Floyd, and Timothy Floyd combine what they have learned in many years of teaching and research concerning the lawyer’s professional identity with lessons derived from legal ethics, moral psychology, and moral philosophy. They describe in depth the six virtues that every lawyer needs as part of his or her professional identity, and they explore both the obstacles to acquiring and deploying those virtues and strategies for overcoming those impediments. The result is a straightforward guide for law students on how to cultivate a professional identity that will allow them to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others and to flourish as individuals.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781317229711
Related ISBNs:
9781315624686, 9781138651685, 9781138651685, 9781138651692, 9781138651692
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Patrick Emery Longan, Daisy Hurst Floyd, and Timothy W. Floyd
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference, Business and Finance, Education, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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