Resources

The Civility Center has created a resource bank of abstracts, essays, articles, and other media on civility from thoughtful leaders and eminent thinkers from across the country.

Resources & Articles

The Robert’s Fund Civility Center for the Law maintains a resource bank of abstracts, essays, articles, and other media on civility from thoughtful leaders and eminent thinkers from across the country.

March 20, 2015

Professionalism

March 20, 2015/ Ricardo Ibarra

Sandra Day O’Connor, Professionalism, 78 Or. L. Rev. 385 (Summer 1999)
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Summary

Justice O’Connor cites research that shows a high and increasing number of lawyers are dissatisfied with their profession; she suggests that declining professionalism is, in part, the cause of lawyers’ job dissatisfaction and the public’s unfavorable opinion of lawyers and the profession.