Ethics in the Legal Industry
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Authors
Ariens, Michael
Issue Date
2018-09
Volume
51
Issue
4
Type
Journal Article
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Abstract
This essay begins by discussing the legal profession’s traditional declaration of the lawyer’s purpose. Lawyers served two masters, their clients and the courts, and they were required to serve each faithfully. This section explains the tension lawyers faced in attempting to achieve an impossible task. The essay then turns to the ten years from 1973 to 1983, when the American legal profession underwent dramatic changes. This section evaluates the economic and ideological shifts that affected the status and income of lawyers. Section IV then looks at the post-1983 history of American lawyers. It specifically focuses on the long-running “debate” between those who embraced the business of private law practice and those who sought to emphasize the public profession of the law, particularly through the ABA and other bar organizations in inculcating professionalism was a consequence of those shocks to lawyers during the 1970s and early 1980s. These challenges sharpened the disagreement among lawyers and lawyer organizations of the fundamental duties of the working lawyer.
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Citation
51 Creighton L. Rev. 673 (2017-2018)
Publisher
Creighton University School of Law