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Scott Greenfield has a good post on legal ethics.  He notes two problems with legal ethics.  First, lawyers don't report unethical conduct.  Second, bar associations don't punish unethical conduct.Every month the legal newspapers and bar association journals state who has been suspended from practicing law or disbarred.  I read those reports every month.  Lawyers commonly get disciplined for failing to maintain client trust accounts, or for not communicating with clients.  However, I can't remember seeing a lawyer get suspended or disbarred for being incompetent; or for lying to a judge.  In the criminal world, both prosecutors and defense lawyers get away with astounding ethical lapses.  We all hear about prosecutors who falsified evidence in order to wrongfully convict lawyers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).