ABSTRACT
Some law schools have exhorted students to “aim higher” than the rules and aspire to act with “professionalism.” This movement broadens the conception of a lawyer’s professional responsibilities in important ways. Professionalism training is a useful supplement to learning about the rules of conduct because it conveys the values of the profession more broadly that the PR course does. There is remarkable consensus in the legal profession about the virtues necessary to be the kind of lawyer who serves clients well and helps to fulfill the public purposes of the profession. Practical wisdom is the “master virtue” enabling to chart a course in such difficult moments of professional practice. The Four Component Model of Morality posits that there are four distinct but interactive components to moral action. The four components are moral sensitivity, moral motivation, moral reasoning, and moral implementation.
