THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM (NIFTEP)
Website: http://law.gsu.edu/niftep

FALL 2009 WORKSHOP
November 6 – 8, 2009
Red Top Mountain Lodge
Georgia
Program (as of November 4, 2009)

All meals are in the Mountain Cove Restaurant in the Main Lodge
All sessions are in the Lakeside Room unless otherwise indicated

THEME ONE: What explicit information and implicit messages are today’s law students and beginning lawyers receiving from popular culture, legal education and the profession about what it means to be a lawyer? How can law teachers and practitioners work together to improve that information and modify those messages, especially to promote ethics and professionalism?

THEME TWO: How can we better identify in our own teaching, mentoring and supervision the implicit messages we convey about what it means to be a lawyer?

Friday
4:00 Opening reception in Lakeside Room
4:15 Introduction to Workshop (Clark Cunningham and Charlotte Alexander)
4:30 Applying the Workshop Themes to a Class Exercise (Clark Cunningham)
5:00 University of Otago (New Zealand) Faculty of Law Course: Was He Being a Good Lawyer? A Scene from Boston Legal (Selene Mize)
5:30 Keynote Address: Impressions of Lawyers and the Legal Profession That Students Bring with Them as They Enter Law School (Paul Barrett)
6:10 University of Minnesota Law School’s Practice and Professionalism Course: Story Exchange Exercise (Nancy Cook)
7:30 Dinner

Saturday
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 Applying the Four Component Model of Moral Behavior to a Real Ethical Dilemma (Clark Cunningham)
-- The OPM Case: What Happened
9:30 A Career Span Model of Professional Ethics: How Exemplary and Entering Attorneys Understand the Meaning of Professionalism, Research Project by Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, University of St. Thomas (Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Small group meetings
11:15 University of Tennessee College of Law’s “Smart Lawyers, Stupid Decisions” Course (Paula Schaefer)
11:45 Mentoring Exercises from Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Professionalism Portfolio Program - Introduction (Amy Timmer)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Free Time
4:00 Afternoon reception: Nacho Station in Lakeside Room
4:30 Mentoring Exercises from Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Professionalism Portfolio Program - Demonstration (Amy Timmer)
5:00 Reflections on Implicit Messages About Lawyering: Using Examples from a Course in Property (Jerry Organ)
5:30 Small group meetings
6:00 Introduction to the International Forum on Teaching Legal Ethics and Professionalism website (Charlotte Alexander)
6:15 The Story of David Spaulding (Tim Floyd)
7:30 Dinner

Sunday
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 Louisiana’s New Advertising Rules (Raul Esquivel)
9:45 Emory University School of Law’s Values in Practice Program (Jan Pratt and Jim Elliott)
10:15 Coffee break
10:30 Small group meetings
11:15 Workshop review, evaluation, and plans for the future (Clark Cunningham)
12:00 Brunch

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