Publication Date
6-2024
Document Type
Article
Abstract
I am very grateful to Professor Daisy Floyd for starting this important conversation about the role of purpose in professional identity formation, and for inviting me to participate in it. As I know my co-panelists agree, this is an important conversation not simply to us as lawyers, but as humans, trying to help each other figure out how to live good, meaningful lives.
I think what might be most useful in my response to Professor Floyd is to turn at least initially from the theoretical to the personal and practical by offering some insight into my own experience with purpose in both law school and my career, and then some related observations. In doing so, I hope to both echo and accentuate some of what Professor Floyd has observed, and also to flag a few areas of complexity in this conversation that might be worth our time as we continue to engage with and clarify this topic in the context of legal education and professional identity formation generally.
Recommended Citation
Decosimo, Harmony
(2024)
"Reflections on Purpose and Professional Identity Formation,"
Mercer Law Review: Vol. 75:
No.
5, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol75/iss5/5