Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he came along, publishing was a gentleman's profession, and books were sold with dignity and decorum, like vintage antiques or old-master drawings. But Bennett Cerf s ego was a volume in itself, and he hawked his wares as if he were conducting the 1812 Overture-with...
Much of the criticism centers on the bar's bible for self-regulation, the Code of Professional Responsibility. In defining a lawyer's duty to his client and the law, the code manages to be vague, rigid, complex and contradictory-all at the same time. "So long as its practitioners are guided by these principles," the code proclaims, "the law will continue to be a noble profession." But Illinois Law Professor Thomas D. Morgan, writing in the Harvard Law Review, found that virtually every section of the code serves lawyers first, protecting them from public criticism and increasing...
Since the turn of the century, the legal profession has claimed the privilege of regulating its own affairs-its ethics and finances and public services. Today that privilege is under widespread attack. Consumer groups, the courts, congressional committees, dissident lawyers and even recipients of legal services are challenging the bar...
>Public criticism by respected leaders of the profession, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, who suggested last spring that arbitration of some varieties of disputes by non-lawyers might be preferable to "hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts."
Many experts believe, however, that the two big factors for change-competitive pricing and prepaid systems-will provide a momentum of their own. "There will be a lot more services provided, but many aspects of the profession will be downgraded," says one. "There will be legal clinics where one guy...