In this workshop, we will begin by identifying the traits - the skills and values - that we believe define a true legal "professional". We do not expect to achieve consensus in this process, but we hope to provoke extensive discussion of the qualities that we believe are most important to the practice of law by "responsible" and "effective" attorneys. We will then use the succeeding plenary, concurrent, and small group sessions to focus on particular skills and values and to explore the ways that we hope, as clinicians and as legal educators, to develop those qualities in our students. We will consider such topics as the messages sent to students about professionalism from the choices made in externship and in-house clinic design. Finally, the program will conclude with a discussion of the ways that we can help students find personal satisfaction in their choice of profession.

We clinicians are of an oral tradition, or at least have been resistant to more traditional forms of scholarship. At the same time, we have made enormous contributions to legal education, the practice of law, and society since clinical education began many years ago. Critical to ensuring a lasting place in a rapidly changing professional world we must memorialize what we do and what we learn. As clinicians, we have produced films, videotapes, and interactive computer programs. Our written work has been in the form of teaching materials, legislation, briefs, other advocacy, law review articles, essays, and books.