Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his college graduation, Charles enteredthe Royal Service and took his seat in the Houseof Lords, embarking on his career in what he hasjokingly called "the oldest profession in theworld."
"The public knows his drug dependency was the result of the incompetence of some in the medical profession," said Leahy, one of those who voted against confirmation.
The move jolted the legal profession, especially the expanding megafirms that compete with Cravath for a relatively stable pool of top graduates. In recent weeks a ripple effect has pushed up salaries at major firms across the country. All of this is good news for young associates, the entry-level...
"After two or three years you figure out that you pay a price for that money," says Dennis Kendig, a partner in the modest-size Los Angeles firm of Sachs & Phelps. "You pay in quality of life." Hard work has always been a hallmark of the legal profession, and the...
Rubin's dilemma has dogged lawyers and courts since the beginnings of the legal profession. "It is an unchallenged rule of professional ethics that a lawyer may not put on a witness who he knows is going to lie," explains Law Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley. When the lying witness is the attorney's own client, however, the rule runs smack into another fundamental ethical rule -- a lawyer's obligation to protect the confidentiality of his client's conversations. Legal scholars have tilted back and forth over the issue. The currently prevailing view, endorsed...