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Ringing The Bell, Roger J. Miner '56
Professionalism: Rekindled, Reconsidered Or Reformulated?, Nancy J. Moore
Professionalism: Rekindled, Reconsidered Or Reformulated?, Nancy J. Moore
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It is increasingly commonplace for bar officials and others to decry what they see as a decline in "professionalism" among lawyers in recent years. For example, in 1984, former Chief Justice Warren Burger gave a speech to an ABA meeting in Las Vegas in which he chastised some members of the profession for taking their freedom to advertise as a "release from all professional restraints," as they use the "same modes of advertising as other commodities from mustard, cosmetics and laxatives to used cars.' 1 Catchy phrases, attractive well-dressed lawyers, and special rates on lossleader items are but some of …