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The roundtable discussion, Special Counsel Investigations and Legal Ethics, of which this essay is a component, could hardly have raised a more urgent issue for American public life in our time. On May 17, 2017, only four months into the presidency of Donald Trump, and shortly after President Trump's dismissal of F.B.I. Director James Comey created a crisis of confidence in the ability of the Justice Department to investigate, fully and fairly, alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials prior to the 2016 election, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller III as Special Counsel to conduct the investigation. …