{"id":9572,"date":"2010-04-07T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T03:25:03","slug":"a-class-of-ethical-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/04\/a-class-of-ethical-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Class of Ethical Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a guest speaker in class today, Professor Grenig arranged for an appearance by\u00a0Mr. Howard Myers, who has\u00a0appeared before Professor Grenig in labor disputes and now himself serves as a mediator.\u00a0 Myers spent the class period talking about the role of a lawyer and ethical considerations that lawyers confront on a daily basis.\u00a0 While I understand that in a future semester I will take a class about ethics, it was very interesting to get a big-picture overview of some different ethical issues and suggestions from Myers.<\/p>\n

First, Myers suggested that each of us find an area of law that we fit into and enjoy.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Myers said that he had seen people\u00a0who were not in the right firm, or the right type of law and these people tend to be miserable.\u00a0 Myers suggested that we give consideration\u00a0to ourselves to find the area of law that we would enjoy, and be persistent in looking for jobs in that area.<\/p>\n

Myers proceeded to go through an article that he co-authored in April 2003 in the Wisconsin Lawyer<\/em> entitled, \u201cAre We Really Raising the Bar?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 Myers explained that people don\u2019t come to lawyers simply because they want a lawyer, but because they are in a crisis.\u00a0 He explained that you must look at what the client really wants, and what they are thinking even emotionally, and Myers explained that the client\u2019s emotions are never wrong.\u00a0 These feelings \u201cmay be irrational, but they are never wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Myers stressed the importance of listening.\u00a0 He stressed the importance of listening to clients about what their goals are, as well as listening to colleagues and the concerns of opposing parties.\u00a0 He also stressed the importance of returning phone calls.\u00a0 Myers stressed that improving these skills can do a lot for people\u2019s views of lawyers.<\/p>\n

Listening to Mr. Myers for almost two hours was very interesting.\u00a0 In my very short time in law school, I\u2019ve read through cases, looked at the reasoning of courts, and have attempted to discern rules.\u00a0 It was interesting to take a step back and realize that there are real people on the other end of these problems, and ethical considerations that need to be taken into account.\u00a0 The class period was great way to bring a lot of material that I am encountering into a big-picture framework.<\/p>\n

As Myers was giving us advice he stated that all of our records were at this point probably untarnished, and explained that if we think through things ethically, we can\u00a0keep them\u00a0that way.\u00a0 Ultimately, he pointed out, it is better and healthier for each of us, and for the profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a guest speaker in class today, Professor Grenig arranged for an appearance by\u00a0Mr. Howard Myers, who has\u00a0appeared before Professor Grenig in labor disputes and now himself serves as a mediator.\u00a0 Myers spent the class period talking about the role of a lawyer and ethical considerations that lawyers confront on a daily basis.\u00a0 While I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-ethics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}