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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Michigan Law Review

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Instrumentalism

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Lawyer's Justice, William A. Edmundson May 1990

Lawyer's Justice, William A. Edmundson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study by David Luban, and The Social Responsibilities of Lawyers: Case Studies by Philip B. Heymann and Lance Liebman


The Pursuit Of A Client's Interest, Warren Lehman Apr 1979

The Pursuit Of A Client's Interest, Warren Lehman

Michigan Law Review

There has been recently a resurgence of interest in how the lawyer serves his client. Much of that interest has been occasioned by the indigestibility of the idea that the lawyer is, as it is said, a hired gun. There are those who think that instead the lawyer ought to act toward his client as a therapist. Others are concerned with rationalizing for the lawyer the ethical discomforts of servantship (which many might guess have been brought to the fore by Watergate). Yet others see the client as victim of a structure - represented by the lawyer - that frustrates …