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OUTSIDE of the legal profession, not too many heads were turning in February when the American Bar Association met in New Orleans to discuss the adoption of a new code of legal ethics. Yet the actions of the lawyer's convention were important and potentially far reaching. In a controversial and unfortunate vote, the 383-member House of Delegates decided to alter the proposed ethical code. Instead, they opted for a formula which casts the lawyer as little but the servant of his client, bound to act in the best interests of that client even if it means disregarding...
...stake in the debate was the final form of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, a new ethics code which a Bar Association commission had been drafting for the last six years. The need for a new ethical platform has been recognized among Bar members for many years. The old Code of Professional Responsibility, adopted in 1969, is seen by many lawyers as ambiguous and outdated. More important, however, is the fact that lawyers today are themselves being sued far more than they had imagined possible in 1969. This proliferation of malpractice suits has, in the words of Andrew Kaufman...
...convention last month considered some 50 rules making up the proposed code, rules covering issues ranging from how law firms bill clients to how much pro bono service a lawyer should perform. But the rules which created the most controversy were those involving the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship. Suppose a lawyer, having concluded a series of transactions for a corporation, discovers that his client has lied to him and that stockholders will be defrauded as a result. Should the lawyer reveal the information so as to save the stockholders from financial loss? The originally proposed code would have...
...different kind of burnout looms Over the Commonwealth of the Democratic Americas in A.D. 2000, as Burgess plays with a well-known science fiction theme. An iron-heavy planet, code-named Lynx, threatens to vaporize the earth in this third and most complete tale. Valentine Brodie, a jittery, lustful, heavy-drinking young "future fiction" writer, is to accompany a space ark populated by an elite, computer-selected group of scientists and thinkers. They have been chosen to carry civilization to the next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond...
...competitive Cambridge, in a small and modest white frame house an Appian Way, an English scientist named Francis Crick is handing across a rickety formica a kitchen table to Harvard scientist James D. Watson a many-times of initials are scratched, chart like, in pencil. It is the DNA code...