Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Louis J. Caldor, 73, the art collector who discovered one of America's most popular primitive artists, the late Grandma Moses; near Clarksburg, Md. In 1938, Caldor, an engineer by profession, noticed some of her paintings among the jellies and doilies in a country drugstore window in upstate...
The section is worth getting through. Beyond it lies Boorstin's often critical commentary on what the Go-Getters really got-and how they got it. A lawyer himself, Boorstin seems bemused at the profession's remarkable good fortune in guiding business through the legal maze of the...
There is, then, no special defense for the Watergate lawyers, and some legal leaders want to see them specially punished. The severest professional punishment that could be visited on any culpable Watergate lawyer is disbarment, which can be inflicted even for misconduct that is not serious enough for criminal prosecution. The A.B.A., says New York Attorney Martin Garbus wryly, "sets forth high standards for lawyers-a higher standard than is anywhere articulated for Presidents." In perfect seriousness, Garbus is gathering 500 signatures for a petition to the California and New York bar associations -both of which have the President...
That is indisputable, but a harsher judgment ought perhaps to be rendered as well. Although lawyers have always had to be concerned about striking the proper balance between advice and advocacy, there are special pressures today because of the way some of the best and brightest attorneys practice their profession...
The law is supposed to be the repository of a society's ethics and morals. It is of course also slavishly technical, extravagantly complex and simultaneously too precise and not precise enough. But its very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth...