Nicola A. Boothe-Perry (Florida A&M) has published Professionalism's Triple E Query: Is Legal Academia Enhancing, Eluding, or Evading Professionalism?, 55 Loyola L. Rev. 517 (2009). Here is the abstract:

There is increasing discomfort in the legal community regarding the state of professionalism exhibited by members of the profession, and the widely held public perception of the lack of professionalism in the legal community. All branches of the legal community play a key role and owe a continuing responsibility to the profession to take steps to enhance professionalism. This article focuses on the role and responsibility specifically of legal academia in the propaedeutic instruction of professionalism in the community.

For far too long legal academia has not fully embraced its unquestionably important role in enhancing professionalism in the legal community. The benefit of having a captive audience of students, willing, able, and for the most part, eager to learn, has either not been recognized; or has been recognized and ignored. To date, the academy has not firmly established whether its role is to simply elude to professionalism in a few carefully chosen classes, completely evade the issue, or to in fact enhance and foster such professionalism for the good of the profession.

This Article encourages the legal academy to recognize, accept and act on its role in enhancing professionalism in the legal community. Bolstered by numerous reports generated by the governing bodies (American Bar Association, etc.), this Article casts the focus on the esteemed position that legal academia holds in the enhancement of professionalism, providing suggestions for such enhancement particularly in the first year of law school.