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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Michigan Law Review

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Legal ethics

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Trumbull: Materials On The Lawyer's Professional Responsibility, Glenn R. Winters May 1958

Trumbull: Materials On The Lawyer's Professional Responsibility, Glenn R. Winters

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Materials on the Lawyer's Professional Responsibility. By William M. Trumbull.


Lay Tradition As To The Lawyer, Roscoe Pound Jun 1914

Lay Tradition As To The Lawyer, Roscoe Pound

Michigan Law Review

We all know the lay tradition as to the lawyer. Mike Monaghan rhymes lawyer with trier. He tells us that the Probate Court is instituted to see that "iviry mimber of the bair gits a fair chanct at phwat the dicaysed didn't take wid 'im." In the timeworn anecdote of the epitaph "here lies an honest lawyer" everyone is ready to say, "that's Strange."' Laymen, who, sitting as arbitrators, will insist on technicalities which the law would instantly reject, and in corner-grocery discussions will argue that a contract signed with a lead pencil is void for informality, are quite sure …


Legal Ethics, Charles A. Kent Apr 1908

Legal Ethics, Charles A. Kent

Michigan Law Review

Legal ethics is a branch of general ethics. Some consideration of the latter is necessary to an understanding of the former. It is a fundamental fact that men generally, if not all sane men, distinguish certain courses of conduct as right and wrong; just as they say particular objects are beautiful and others ugly. They feel a duty to do some things and to refrain from others. If savages do not feel distinctly the sense of duty, at least they are indignant at certain conduct in their associates, and approve of other acts, on moral grounds. This sense of duty …