Word: professional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"No doubt there is much about the legal profession that ought to be changed," he wrote.
"I feel a certain sense of relief that I'm going into a profession where having a big mouth is an asset and where being appropriate is not something that I'm always having to keep in mind," she said.
The program, which Wilkins has headed since last spring, was formed in 1981 with a $275,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to encourage innovative approaches to teaching legal ethics, which bridge the gap between the academy and the profession.
Wilkins also meets with faculty from the Business, Kennedy and Medical Schools to develop courses and learning experiences that could be helpful for future lawyers. "It's a very real danger that things we teach students here at the Law School will not match up to what they find in...
Through the Program on the Legal Profession, Wilkins has also been organizing studies of the practice for the purpose of understanding the ways in which law is actually practiced. "We have to teach [the students] about that's actually realistic and practical," he says.