Former GE general counsel Ben Heineman has written a new book titled High Performance with High Integrity in which he argues that CEOs must create "cultures of integrity." I'm a bit skeptical that "integrity" gets us very far on its own unless we talk about the moral or ethical principles from which we are not supposed to be divided. In any event, what struck me is a complaint he offered about law schools in an interview:
Law schools teach powerful analytical tools but they don’t as often teach students to go beyond searching for what is legal to ask (and learn how to answer): “what is right?”
I'm not sure that Heineman's book will give a comprehensive or compelling vision of how to articulate, or even engage, questions of the "right" or the "good" in the attorney-client relationship, but in light of our previous conversations on the prudent objectives of legal education, I found it interesting that there is dissatisfaction expressed by someone who has been "in the trenches."