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Article: Pro bono legal work: for the good of not only the public, but also the lawyer and the legal profession. (response to Harry T. Edwards, Michigan Law Review, vol. 91, p. 34, 1992) (Symposium: Legal Education)
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- August 1, 1993
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Introduction
Judge Harry Edwards' important, provocative article,(1) which is the subject of this Symposium issue, contained a triple-pronged critique of legal education and the legal profession. It constructively criticized legal scholarship,(2) legal pedagogy,(3) and legal practice.(4) My commentary will focus on the last aspect of Judge Edwards' analysis: what he calls "ethical practice."(5) More specifically, my commentary will focus on the first of the two criteria that Judge Edwards delineates for such practice: the lawyer's "ethical obligation to ... deploy his or her talents pro bono rather than pro se, at least in part.(6)
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