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57 J. Legal Educ. 102 (2007)
Fostering Professionalism through Mentoring

handle is hein.journals/jled57 and id is 110 raw text is: Fostering Professionalism through Mentoring Nell Hamilton and Lisa Montpetit Brabbit Introduction Do you think our profession could do better at realizing its ideals and core values? Ask this question to any group of experienced lawyers at a CLE ses- sion and every hand will go up. Professionalism is the term most often used to describe this widespread desire to do better, but the profession does not agree on the specific meaning and scope of the term. In the following section, we outline seven principles to provide a clear definition of professionalism. How can we improve professionalism? Scholars, bar associations, and judges are beginning to recognize the importance of formal mentor relation- ships as a means of doing so. The ABA's 1986 Stanley Commission Report recommends that more experienced lawyers would be useful mentors for new lawyers.' The ABA's 1996 Haynsworth Report urges experienced law- yers to participate in formal and informal mentoring programs and recom- mends that bar associations establish mentor programs under which expe- rienced lawyers mentor newly admitted lawyers.' The 1999 National Action Plan on Lawyer Conduct and Professionalism adopted by the Conference of Neil Hamilton is a professor of law, the Director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions, and Faculty Adviser to the Mentor Externship Program, University of St. Thomas School of Law. Lisa Montpetit Brabbit is the Assistant Dean for External Relations and Programs, supervises the Mentor Externship Program, and is former Director of the Mentor Externship Program, University of St. Thomas School of Law. The article has benefited greatly from the comments and suggestions of the current Mentor Externship Program Director, David Bateson, as well as attorney Robert MacCrate and pro- fessors Rob Atkinson, Susan Fortney, Sharon Gibson, Steven Hartwell, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Shaffer, and adjunct professor Susan Roehrich. The help of our research assistants, Brooke Swenson, Kristi Schlosser Carlson, and Marion Cush, was invaluable. We do not speak for the School of Law in this article. A.B.A., Comm'n on Professionalism, ...In the Spirit of Public Service: A Blueprint for the Rekindling of Lawyer Professionalism 2 (Chicago, 1986) (hereinafter Stanley Commission Report). 2. A.B.A., Section of Legal Educ. & Admissions to the Bar, Teaching and Learning Professionalism: Report of the Professionalism Committee 29, 31 (Chicago 1996) (hereinafter Haynsworth Report). Journal of Legal Education, Volume 57, Number i (March 2007)

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