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29 sie 2017 · Some of us represent clients charged with misconduct or illegal action, while others perform transactional work, seeking to help clients put their deals together in a way so as to avoid trouble. At times, lawyers find themselves being scrutinized; after all, we are not infallible.
2 paź 2020 · In this article, we contribute to sociological literatures on morality, professional and institutional contexts, and morally stigmatized ‘dirty work’ by emphasizing and exploring how they mutually inform one another in lawyers’ work activities.
This article argues that if legal education in law faculties, as one of the important role-players in forming sound lawyers, is to succeed in producing legal graduates of strong moral fibre and who are fit for practice, it must offer more than reviews of codes of conduct.
20 kwi 2022 · Following the Law Society’s 2022 Risk and Compliance Annual Conference, Access Legal's Regulatory Director, Brian Rogers explores ethical issues in law firms and the solicitors' code of conduct, and some of the biggest scandals in the legal industry.
This chapter discusses the important role played lawyers in protecting their client's interest even if it means doing acts which others view as immoral and illegal. Lawyers as professionals have important roles to play in society or what is termed as ‘professional role morality’.
Among them are Philip Pettit, who is a philosopher at Princeton; Michael Bratman at Stanford, although he hedges somewhat in the book; and Peter French, who has written a very influential statement that moral responsibility can be attributed to firms. They’re examples in the first part of the book.
8 lip 2016 · Gerald Dworkin’s overlooked defense of legal moralism attempts to undermine the traditional liberal case for a principled distinction between behavior that is immoral and criminal and behavior that is immoral but not criminal.
