Robinson Everett: The Citizen Lawyer Ideal Lives on
6 Pages Posted: 10 Mar 2010
Date Written: March 4, 2010
Abstract
In this tribute to Professor Robinson O. Everett, Dean David Levi questions the view that the citizen-lawyer or lawyer-statesmen models are in decline. Tracing Professor Everett’s varied career, accomplishments, and commitments to individuals and institutions; Levi contends that Everett combined the lawyer's traditional focus on the individual with an overall dedication to the larger community. Everett was not just a model citizen; he was a lawyer-citizen. Levi contends that the survival of the lawyer-citizen and lawyer-statesmen models is a matter of choice and character. Nothing in the current structure of the legal economy places these models out of reach for those who would follow in Robinson Everett's footsteps.
Keywords: legal profession, lawyer citizen, lawyer statesman, memorial Robinson Everett
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