Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school dean: "You have to compare it to alternatives. The adversary system works better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle on a client who ignores his legal advice and violates the law?" The answer...
An ethics code revision is clearly needed, and the best in the profession want to see it done ?and enforced. "Lawyering," suggests Eric Schnapper, a New York public interest attorney, "is within the relatively narrow category of occupations where borderline dishonesty is fairly lucrative. In many instances, the very...
What does a Radcliffe woman see as her choices? The old "choice" of unpaid domestic work and twenty-four-hour-a-day child care; a career, in some profession that not only discriminates against her sex, but also feels alien to her because its ethos and value system have been...
But as a house author, one M. Hector Berlioz, has stated, "The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck." Cirker, 60, has been displaying that talent for 35 years. "I graduated from City College in 1936," he recalls. "The teeth of the...
What Wootten strives to keep is a remarkable rapport with his players. When he began coaching in the '50s, the role model for his profession was a Marine drill instructor: shouting, short hair and slavish obedience. But Wootten encouraged his players to call him by his first name. Although...