Center for Professionalism offers help to law students
The Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism is reaching out to Florida law students.
Center Director Rebecca Bandy has sent an email to law students listing the resources available through the center and its website.
Those resources include:
- The Professionalism Handbook: This handbook includes a collection of professionalism resources designed to help attorneys and students at Florida law schools learn the importance of civility and professionalism in the legal profession. It includes selected chapters of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, along with Professionalism Expectations, and the Guidelines for Professional Conduct. This guide and its resources embody and reflect the substance of the professional identity, personality, character, and fitness to practice law, which each member of the Bar should exemplify.
- Best Practices for Electronic Communications: Lawyers daily use multiple forms of communication to diligently advocate and are in a constant state of communication with clients, opposing counsel, the court, and colleagues. This guide provides best practices for the most popularly used forms of electronic communication.
- “How to Become the Lawyer You’re Supposed to Be” — Free CLE Videos for Law Students.
- #ProTipTuesday Professionalism Video Vignettes: Short videos that go a long way toward helping young attorneys and those new to practice learn about and stay focused on practicing with professionalism.
- Never Contemplated Podcast: The Florida Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism presents Never Contemplated, a candid discussion with female judges from across the state about gender bias, professionalism, and civility in the judicial system, hosted by Judge Hetal Desai. The series is available on Buzzsprout, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other major podcast platforms.
- Professionalism Podcasts: A collection of professionalism-related podcasts is available on the Center’s website.
Bandy also invited the students to suggest areas they would like professionalism help in, including “general professionalism, communications strategies, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, mentoring, time management, mental-health issues, gratitude, resilience, and diversity and inclusion.”
