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- Title
ENLIGHTENED ADVOCACY: A PHILOSOPHICAL SHIFT WITH A PUBLIC POLICY IMPACT.
- Authors
Tollefson, Ingrid N.
- Abstract
This article discusses the metaphorical image of the lawyer as nurturer that helped legal professionals to find out deeper meaning their lives as lawyers and law students. Lawyer face the vocational dilemmas. A formidable "crisis of dissatisfaction" plagues the legal community. The metaphorical image of lawyer as nurturer presents the possibility of transforming the lawyer's conception of his work and the possibility of transforming the public's conception of lawyers as people who serve and benefit the community. The lawyer as nurturer uses compassion and mindfulness as a necessary supplement of intellectual and analytical skills to mitigate suffering and secure justice for his client.
- Subjects
LAWYERS; LEGAL ethics; IMAGE; LEGAL professions; JUSTICE; PERSONS
- Publication
Hamline Journal of Public Law & Policy, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 2, p481
- ISSN
0736-1033
- Publication type
Article