All posts tagged: Clinical Professor

Superman

My Clinical Prof Can Leap Tall Buildings In Single Bounds!

I try not to share too much of my personal life with my students. I already feel that sometimes the clinic is a little too much all about me. I tell stories about old cases that I think help prove points. I teach alone so am the go to person for questions students have. I select a lot of our client work and share my values with my students by helping them pick cases that meet clinic goals, which as much as I like to say are our goals we develop together are often mine. Lately, I feel I need rules to decide what personal things I should share. Is it only things that will help them lawyer? Is it things that make me seem human or approachable? What if I just want to?  What helps and what is just forcing them have to learn about me whether they want to or not? A few years ago, I had no choice about revealing part of my personal life. On the front page of the Philadelphia …