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Doing the Right Thing
Hazard, Geoffrey
Hazard, Geoffrey
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Abstract
A lawyer representing a client should try to "do the right thing." Stated in simplest terms, this is the ideal that inspires the recurrent call for lawyers to be more ethical. In the most recent decade, the call has been expressed in terms of "professionalism." In earlier years, the call was expressed as a demand that lawyers dedicate themselves to "serving the public interest" and in Victorian times it was expressed in terms of the "honor of the legal profession." However expressed, the quest is for greater virtue on the part of lawyers, both individually and as a profession.