Report of the Dean 1973-1974

My assessments of the Law School have tended more to describe developments than to state aspirations. I continue to assess things in that vein; my preference for leadership in the Dean\u27s Office is to build on the goals which are implicit in the work of the tireless, dedicated people who teach and learn law at Notre Dame. My hope in approaching our enterprise in this way is to discover myself, and to help my colleagues discover, the power with which they serve God, the University, the community, our embattled profession, and one another. This power in us, St. Paul said, is the power he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world. The Law School\u27s objective is to identify and inform the qualities in men and women which will cause them to be honorable, autonomous, private lawyers. We are interested in their being knowledgeable, skillful professionals whose principal concern is the well-being of their clients. This involves a concern with the private practice, which is the destination of about 85 percent of our graduates, with professional autonomy, and with ethical standards which are consequent on a sense of professional responsibility (i.e., the ability to respond to one\u27s clients) and on the implications of the Gospel in a lawyer\u27s life