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58 Wake Forest L. Rev. 981 (2023)
Forming Good Lawyers

handle is hein.journals/wflr58 and id is 1001 raw text is: FORMING GOOD LAWYERS Kenneth Townsend* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. 982 I. WHY IS PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY FORMATION NEEDED? ..... 983 A. Professional Identity Formation Movement in C o n tex t ............................................................................. 9 8 3 B. Centrifugal Forces ........................................................... 987 1. Mental Health and Well-being .................................. 988 2. Loss of Trust ............................................................... 989 3. Sp ecia liza tion .............................................................990 4. Diversification ............................................................991 5. Technology ............................... 992 6. Neutral Partisan Lawyering ..................................... 994 7. Compliance-Based Ethics .......................................... 995 II. WHY CHARACTER-BASED PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY? ............. 996 A. Affirmative Case for Character-Based Professional Identity Formation .......................................................... 997 1. A character-based professional identity is intrinsically valuable................................................. 997 2. A character-based professional identity is instrumentally valuable......................................... 998 3. Character and identity are both holistic and facilitate the connection between personal and professional domains.......................................... 999 4. Character is already being taught, and identities * Executive Director of Leadership and Character in the Professional Schools, Wake Forest University; Teaching Professor, Wake Forest University School of Law; and Presidential Higher Education Fellow, Wake Forest University's Office of the President. I would like to thank the participants and student organizers of the 2023 Wake Forest Law Review Symposium Leading Change in the Legal Profession; the participants in the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Profession Symposium, Transitioning from Student to Lawyer: Infusing Professional Identity Formation into the Required Curriculum; and colleagues in the Wake Forest University School of Law Juniors Workshop. I would also like to acknowledge Michael Lamb, Ben Rigney, and Ann Phelps for direct and indirect support on this Article as well as the Kern Family Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the John Templeton Foundation for their support promoting leadership and character at Wake Forest and beyond. Thanks also to the excellent work of the Wake Forest Law Review editors. 981