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The Tax Man's Ethics: Four Of The Hardest Ethical Questions For An Irs Lawyer, Michelle M. Kwon
The Tax Man's Ethics: Four Of The Hardest Ethical Questions For An Irs Lawyer, Michelle M. Kwon
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The traditional approach to legal ethics often is characterized to mean that lawyers must zealously advocate for their clients’ objectives tempered only by the bounds of the law. In contrast to the traditional approach, the public interest approach to legal ethics extends a government lawyer’s professional ethical duties from the agency client to the public at large to further the public interest. Commentators, in advocating either the traditional approach or the public interest approach to government lawyering, disagree about whether a government lawyer owes some sort of duty to the public and if so, the nature and scope of that …