January 17, 2012 Embedding Professionalism in Legal Education A
recent article by Denise Platfoot Lacey advocates that law
schools go beyond classroom teaching of ethics to evaluate their
students' professional conduct in law school. This is an
excellent idea. Law students need to learn how to act like
professionals in law school. Abstract: There has been a repeated
call to incorporate professionalism training in legal education
in order to assist students in developing professionalism. While
law schools have begun to answer this call, they often fail to
teach and assess actual professionalism behaviors of their law
students. Such failure results in lost opportunities to impart
to law students the expectations of the legal profession, as
well as to help them to develop the highest standards of
conduct. This article will present information about a model of
professionalism assessment in medical education and how it can
be integrated into legal education to facilitate the teaching
and evaluation of professional