Deborah Rhode, Director, Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and Ernest W. McFarland, Professor of Law, at Stanford Law School assess the role of lawyers as leaders in their paper "Lawyers and Leadership". Lawyers have always held important leadership role in the world of business and the community and still do in many circumstances today. The article asks why it is that lawyers hold these roles when they have never been given any formal teaching on leadership.
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