Conference & Symposia Proceedings

Mentoring: The Future of the Profession
Columbia, South Carolina, March 27–29, 2008

• Session 1: An Interdisciplinary View of Mentoring – What can it accomplish, what are its limitations, when is it most effective, and what is its value to professional institutions?
• Session 2: The Current State of Mentoring in the Legal Profession – To what extent and how effectively do professional groups, courts, and law firms currently provide mentoring?
• Session 3: The Current State of Mentoring in the Legal Profession – Can/Should effective mentoring begin in law school?

South Carolina Law Review, Volume 54 Book 4, Spring 2003
Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers for Professional Conduct
Charleston, South Carolina, September 27-29, 2002

• Table of Contents
• Introduction, Roy T. Stuckey
• Keynote Address: "Why is Accountability Important?", Dennis Archer
• Defining the Challenges of Professionalism: Access to Law and Accountability of Lawyers, Deborah L. Rhode
• Transcript from Professionalism Conference
  • First Panel: Strategies for Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers
  • Small Group Discussions of Strategies for Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers
  • Question & Answer Session

South Carolina Law Review, Volume 52 Book 3, Spring 2001
Improving the Professionalism of Lawyers: Can Commissions, Committees, and Centers Make a Difference?
Savannah, Georgia, October 20-21, 2000

• Table of Contents
• Introduction, Roy T. Stuckey
• Agenda
• Keynote Address & Opening Remarks
  • Keynote Address, Martha W. Burnett
  • Opening Remarks, Deborah L. Rhode
• Professionalism from a Social Science Perspective, Dean Kilpatrick & Robert L. Nelson
• Transcript from Professionalism Conference
  • First Panel: The Law Schools' Response to Professionalism Issues
  • Second Panel: The Judiciary's Response to Professionalism Issues
  • Special Presentation of the Open Society Institute
  • Third Panel: The Organized Bar's Response to Professionalism Issues
  • Panel Discussion: Proposals for New Initiatives
• Conclusion
  • Social Scientists Reflection on the Conference, Dean Kilpatrick & Robert L. Nelson
  • Closing Remarks, Stephen Gillers