This course will accordingly help attorneys understand lawyer shaming, its harmful consequences, and ethical implications. Every lawyer has an ethical duty to zealously represent their clients, strengthen the legal profession, and increase access to justice. The course will explain how the explicit, implicit, and systemic biases behind lawyering shaming can consciously or unconsciously influence the practice of even the most steadfast lawyers in ways that may violate their ethical duties to clients, the legal profession, and society at large. The course will teach lawyers how to be more aware of their own implicit bias against unpopular prospective clients and how to distinguish such bias from legitimate moral objections to representations they find repugnant.
