PHIL 2135 Study Guide - Final Guide: American Bar Association, Reasonable Person, Legal Ethics
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The degree to which these allegations are true may be difficult to assess, but what can be said is that lawyers, like professionals in all fields, are prone to certain ethical hazards and temptations. There are enticements generated by the financial benefits of being successful in this profession, and lawyers face confront. What does this mean about the role of lawyers in that system: the anglo-american system, not just implicitly but in its actual codes, encourages lawyers to win rather than to seek truth or justice. This creates a variety of ethical difficulties that must be sorted out. The rules in existing codes, such as those of the american bar association and the. Association of trial lawyers of america, must be interpreted carefully, so that individual lawyers are able to apply those rules to their particular circumstances. In some case it may be appropriate to change some of the existing rules.
