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Jack Marshall of ProEthics Flunked Legal Ethics

What is ethics?  Or is it Ethics?  Does ethics come from God or man?  Are ethics a social construct?  Who decides what is unethical?  Ethics is a rich philosophical subject.  That said, there is ethics; and then there is legal ethics.  These are not the same subjects.My legal ethics professor was a rabbi.  On the first day of class, he said, "Legal ethics has nothing to do with actual ethics.  Much of what the law requires you to do will go against what you view as your ethical duties as a human being."   In fact, our legal ethics class was called Professional Responsibility - since the course focused on the actual rules that apply to lawyers.  Legal ethics - the law governing a lawyer's behavior - are subject to written, articulable, enforceable rules...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).