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Making lawyers good people: possibility or pipedream?(legal ethics)

From: Fordham Urban Law Journal  |  Date: 8/1/2001  |  Author: Dhanaraj, Subha

Law schools are like medieval monasteries. We seclude our novices from the world, give them sacred texts.... We give them ritual incantations ... to perform when their faith flags. Unlike other monasteries, however, we have no holy songs, for our faith holds that everything significant can be said. Our students take the vow to think like lawyers. As if in perpetual meditation, they must exclude from consciousness their prior lives and thoughts, their opinions, their outrage. We ...

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