Edited by Galen L. Fletcher and Jane H. Wise

An ethical life in the law is both a process and a product. This collection of talks is designed to assist law students and attorneys in their work to be moral healers, professionals, and servants in the law. Some of the speeches focus on the process of being ethical or competent. They speak to the practical and spiritual decisions that professionals make to become better. Other talks touch on the results of moral choices for Christian lawyers, holding them up as worthy goals.

The book’s categories, “Be Ethical,” “Be Healers,” “Be Professional,” and “Be Servants” address what lives of service and integrity in the law can look like. Each of these categories has aspects of both process and product. Our hope is that the readers will become ethical lawyers, constantly striving in the process and always improving themselves as the product. In addition, at the end of this volume are a set of materials specific to J. Reuben Clark Law School, an institution founded to leaven the loaf of the legal profession and society, a continual process and a never-ending product.

This volume seeks to perpetuate the memory and name of J. Reuben Clark Jr., a man of integrity, who constantly improved himself throughout his life by serving others. This book is not about him, although seven photos are included and he is profiled substantially in two chapters. Rather, this volume shows the legacy being created by good men and women associated with the two institutions that carry his name: J. Reuben Clark Law School and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Most of these chapters originally were talks given at BYU Law School, at Clark Society events, or at Brigham Young University, and published in the Clark Memorandum. This book is a successor volume to an earlier compilation, Life in the Law: Answering God’s Interrogatories (2002). — Scott W. Cameron, Galen L. Fletcher, and Jane H. Wise

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Volume Two: Service and Integrity

Front Matter

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Frontmatter

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Preface: Life in the Law: Service & Integrity, Scott W. Cameron, Galen L. Fletcher, and Jane H. Wise

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Themes — Section Dividers

Be Ethical

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How Do We Practice Our Religion While We Practice?, Thomas B. Griffith

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A Restatement of Contracts, Cree-L Kofford

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It Is Given unto You to Judge, Sheila McCleve

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On Being Ethical Lawyers, Sandra Day O'Connor

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Learning from Our Conflicts, Gerald R. Williams

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Religiously Affiliated Law Schools: An Added Dimension, Kevin J. Worthen

Be Healers

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The Doctrine of Religious Freedom, W. Cole Durham Jr.

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Be Healers, James E. Faust

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Words of Hate, Words of Love, Constance K. Lundberg

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Peacemaking: Our Essential Work in the Last Days, Chieko N. Okazaki

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Law School: A Sacred Experience, Jane H. Wise

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The Relevance of Religious Freedom, Michael K. Young

Be Professional

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A Personal Philosophy of Professionalism, Cecil O. Samuelson

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Three Assumptions Lawyers Must Never Make, Brett G. Scharffs

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Packing Your Briefcase, Deanell Reece Tacha

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And with All Thy Mind, John W. Welch

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Avoiding Pitfalls, Dale A. Whitman

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In Search of Atticus Finch, Lance B. Wickman

Be Servants

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On the Wings of My Fathers, Larry Echo Hawk

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With Charity for All, Matthew S. Holland

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Unto This Very Purpose, Neal A. Maxwell

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The Beginning and the End of a Lawyer, Dallin H. Oaks

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On the Shoulders of Giants, Boyd K. Packer

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Acquired by Character, Not by Money, Kenneth W. Starr

J. Reuben Clark Law School

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Why the J. Reuben Clark Law School? Dedicatory Address and Prayer of the J. Reuben Clark Law Building (September 5, 1975), Marion G. Romney

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Dedicatory Remarks and Prayer of the Howard W. Hunter Law Library (March 21, 1997), Gordon B. Hinckley

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The House that Rex Built, Dee V. Benson

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A Walk by Faith: Founding Stories of the Law School, Bruce C. Hafen

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The Essence of Lawyering in an Atmosphere of Faith, Kevin J. Worthen

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Lawyers and the Rule of Law, James D. Gordon III

Back Matter

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Index