"The Servant Lawyer"

Here's a new paper, with a very long title, on SSRN, written by Kristin Fortin, a former student of mine, that should be up the alley of many MOJ-ers:

The Servant Leader Where the Modern Lawyer Should Be and How the Modern Lawyer Can Get There: How the Professionalism Paradigm Fueled by a Lawyer's Ethical Obligation to Inform Clients about Alternative Dispute Resolution Can Revive the Lawyer's Sense of Self, Sense of Vocation, and Sense of Service

Abstract:     
Lawyers need a particular ideal that embodies their skills, qualities, and aspirations - a model to emulate, a standard for judging professional development, and a source of pride in being a lawyer. To accomplish this, the legal profession must function within the professionalism paradigm and re-create the lawyer of practical wisdom who serves clients by informing them of all their options in resolving disputes. The most important step in this movement is to recognize that every lawyer ought to have an ethical obligation to counsel clients about alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as an alternative to adversarial proceedings. By enacting this ethical obligation, lawyers will reacquaint themselves and the law with the professional ideal of putting the client first in a meaningful way. . . .