For the nation’s top law students, interview season typically ends with a six-figure offer and work in plush downtown offices. For a select few though, it means something different: A chance to put their ideals into practice. Each year the Skadden Fellowship Foundation pays 25 carefully selected law grads a salary plus benefits and law-school tuition debt service, to go to work providing civil legal services to the poor for … Continue reading
Welcome to The Modern Ethical Lawyer website. MEL offers high quality, cutting-cutting edge courses in legal ethics and professional responsibility.
Who is the modern ethical lawyer? She is smart, ambitious, and modern in her outlook, technological savvy, and financial sophistication. But he also believes ethics and professional responsibility are core elements of the modern legal practice. She wants her CLE training in ethics to be easy to access and entertaining, but … Continue reading