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Ethical Opportunity in the Practice of Law
Hazard, Geoffrey
Hazard, Geoffrey
Abstract
It is well known that the professional conduct of lawyers is governed by an elaborate set of legal rules. It is also well known that the actual conduct of lawyers, taken as a whole, falls short of what the rules require. A criticism of the rules is that they countenance aggressive and hurtful behavior that should not be permitted. Another criticism is that lawyers, in their professional conduct, are not faithful to the spirit of the professional rules, which reaches above and beyond the letter of the law.