School: Meet the Professors (Part 4)

This is Professor Lidsky, my Professional Responsibility teacher. They used to have 1Ls take CivPro the first semester, but I suppose they decided to start teaching lawyer ethics from the start to sort of frame your experience at law school; I have to say, I think it's probably better this way.

She received her J.D. at the University of Texas, and is a specialist in defamation (she is still admitted to the bar in Florida and takes on the occasional defamation case). Her husband, as she tells us, is a criminal defense attorney, which provides her some inside info on lawyer ethics in terms of a lawyer's duties to a criminal defendant. Above all, she is definitely bringing a lot of knowledge to bear when she teaches.

She calls on people the least of all my professors (I don't include my Legal Research & Writing professor), and she often gets into entertaining tangents while explaining the law. She proposes plenty of hypos, most of which have no "right" answer. Some see her as flighty, but she's always nice to her students and doesn't mind answering questions, so to heck with the critics. :P