Lawyers, heal thyselves

Article Abstract:

Physician-patient alienation and physicians warning that tampering with the medical profession would have dire consequences culminated in the medical profession having reforms "forced" upon them by those who should be their allies, and the law profession must act to avoid suffering this fate. Lawyers should admit that the law has wrongly becine an instrument to remedy adverse results, and recognize that the legal strategy of casting a wide net trapping the innocent as well as the guilty is unethical.

United States, Physicians, Medical professions

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Enhancing client protection: lawyers need to demonstrate their trustworthiness, not worry about image

Article Abstract:

Attorneys should look to ways of minimizing the risks to clients of ethical violations instead of fixating on public perceptions of the profession. On way to reduce risks is to establish and participate in client protection funds, which are available to clients who are the victims of attorney misappropriation of funds. Trust account record-keeping requirements must be promoted and enforced as well.

Management, Economic aspects, Legal ethics, Practice of law, Attorney and client

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Time to shift focus; bar needs to emphasize public service, worry less about "image problem" (President's Page)

Article Abstract:

Attorneys should worry more about social problems such as the growing number of poor people and growing anti-immigrant sentiment in the US than about their public image. Lawyers so mired in self-interest that they do nothing but think about their own image problem compound the problem for the legal community as a whole. The legal profession's priority must remain service.

Interpretation and construction, Public interest law, President's Page

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