Legal Marketing & Consulting
Lawyer Makes Ethics Entertaining
Posted May 12, 2008, 12:20 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A lawyer with a love of theater has combined his appreciation for entertainment with his interest in ethics.
Jack Marshall tells the Washington Post he thinks ethics can be entertaining. He runs a business, ProEthics, that offers legal and ethics training courses using professional actors and musicians to help deliver the message.
The courses might include rewritten rock songs or satires of television shows that present ethical dilemmas. "The whole point is to put people at ease, so they're not just sitting back and falling asleep," Marshall told the newspaper.
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