Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Session 3, 11:30am-12:15pm
Teaching the Unwritten Rules of Lawyering
Ursula Weigold
Program Code: W3E
Legal communities often have unwritten rules that can affect professional success and reputation as surely as technical proficiency does, and new lawyers may struggle to even recognize these norms. This session will explore how legal writing professors can help to socialize students into the unstated expectations that relate to a lawyer’s quality of work, attitude, and conduct both in and outside of a work setting.