Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir: Legend has it that in his lifetime St. Yves of Brittany, the patron saint of lawyers [May 3], was obsessed with the legal profession's lack of a counterpart for the physicians' Luke and the soldiers' George. He journeyed to Rome and put the matter before...
Disrupting courtroom decorum is an occasional tactic of defendants and even defense lawyers willing to risk violating the canons of their profession. Often with the help of an intemperate judge, they manage to raise a legal ruckus that may very well provoke a mistrial or a judicial error likely to...
Those who advocate sterner rules to regulate a lawyer's courtroom actions found a ready and powerful ally last week. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, in an address to 1,500 lawyers, judges and law professors at the American Law Institute meeting in Washington, D.C., called for a return...
We must make some basic decisions in terms of allocating the responsibility for regulating what is inherently a contentious profession and then place rigorous powers of discipline wherever we place the responsibility. Lawyers, judges and law professors must see that an undisciplined and unregulated profession will destroy itself, will fail...
Barry Hillenbrand, now in the Los Angeles bureau, comes from a family of physicians and dentists and was programmed to follow the tradition. "My total inability to master all 274 parts of the frog in college zoology turned my head and nose away from the profession," he says. Hillenbrand spent...