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105 W. Va. L. Rev. 495 (2002-2003)
It's Hard to be a Human Being and a Lawyer: Young Attorneys and the Confrontation with Ethical Ambiguity in Legal Practice

handle is hein.journals/wvb105 and id is 505 raw text is: IT'S HARD TO BE A HUMAN BEING AND A LAWYER: YOUNG ATTORNEYS AND THE CONFRONTATION WITH ETHICAL AMBIGUITY IN LEGAL PRACTICE Robert Granfield Thomas Koenig** I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 495 II. THE DEBATE OVER ETHICAL INSTRUCTION IN LAW SCHOOL .............. 497 III. THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ................................................................... 504 A . M ethods .................................................................................... 506 B. Relevance of Ethical Instruction in Professional Practice ....... 508 C. M anaging Ethical Uncertainty ................................................. 512 IV. BRINGING CONTEXT INTO LEGAL ETHICS INSTRUCTION ...................... 519 V . C ONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................... 522 I. INTRODUCTION Less than one year after graduating from Harvard Law School, Gloria resigned from the legal profession.' The precipitating incident was Gloria's success in obtaining a crucial admission from a poorly educated woman who had been permanently disabled in a pressing machine accident.2 As she de- scribed the case: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Denver. Chair, Department of Sociology and Professor of Law, Policy and Society Ph.D program, Northeastern University. Funding for this research was generously provided by the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard University Law School and the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors would like to acknowledge Deborah Rhode and David Wilkins for their contributions to this paper. I Telephone Interview with (Gloria Waters), Harvard Law School class of 1989 (Apr. 1993). All respondent names cited in this article have been changed to conceal their identity. All inter- views are on file with Robert Granfield. 2 Gloria explained that:

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