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You Be the Ethics Board

Friday, January 22, 2010

Illinois lawyer Loren Friedman changed the Bs and Cs on his law-school transcript to As and Bs and landed a summer associate job at Sidley Austin, the large corporate Chicago law firm.  Years later, when Friedman was working as an associate in a firm in New York, Sidley Austin discovered the lie.  Friedman admitted his [...]

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I Never Metadata I Didn’t Like*^^

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Metadata is “data about data” or “information about other information.”  Web pages contain metadata–click on “view page source” or the equivalent command in your browser to see all of the behind-the-scenes code that goes into this seemingly plain, boringly-white page.  The typewritten papers and memos of my college and law school careers contained no metadata [...]

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Ethics Articles

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Preparing to teach a graduate law and ethics course his summer I discovered the website of the Institute for Global Ethics  (www.globalethics.org).   I read Rushworth M. Kidder’s book  How Good People Make Tough Choices for background and pointed students to some of its “right versus right” dilemmas for class discussion.  I also signed up for its [...]

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Missing the Point

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Preparing for the law and ethics course I am teaching later this summer I Googled “How Good People Make Tough Choices” to find the link on the Institute for Global Ethics site where students can download an excerpt.  Google listed it as the fifth primary link–immediately after the link to a web site offering for [...]

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Right versus Wrong?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I’m preparing to teach Current Topics in Law and Ethics in the graduate business program this summer, which I have not taught before.  I have two syllabi from colleagues but  I’m trying to reinvent the wheel by reducing the law and increasing the ethics content.   One thing about ethics discussions and ethics advice:  they can [...]

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