Professional Responsibility is in my teaching portfolio. I teach the Model Rules but also professional values. Without the second, we are left with just so much useless scaffolding. Here then are just a few of those many values with some thoughts on how to transmit them.

No. 1 : The Value of Winning

This may seem like an odd place to start. After all, we seem to be living in a legal world in which compromise is the most cherished value, and putting up a fight the least. But Model Rule 1.2 (Allocation of Authority) states that the client sets the goals and we set the agenda to meet them. And, guess what, there are times that the client wants to fight and win.