Comments on: When Does Moral Justice Trump Professional Responsibility? http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/blog/2013/02/12/when-does-moral-justice-trump-professional-responsibility/ Connect on how legal matters affect society and influence the artistic imagination Mon, 13 May 2013 21:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: CP http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/blog/2013/02/12/when-does-moral-justice-trump-professional-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-77260 CP Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:03:37 +0000 http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/blog/?p=3544#comment-77260 The buried bodies case was interesting for a variety of reasons. One being that it illustrates the extreme circumstances in which lawyers ethically must keep their clients' disgusting, immoral, despicable, and yes, immoral secrets. However, I think the most interesting part is that the lawyers actually leveraged the privileged information they had about where the bodies where buried in a negotiated plea deal. They were certainly not ethically required to do that. THAT is disgusting. The rules of professional ethics do not dictate that we be hired guns for our clients. We can choose whether or not we want to practice that way. The rules allow us to choose how moral we choose to be in our profession. The buried bodies case was interesting for a variety of reasons. One being that it illustrates the extreme circumstances in which lawyers ethically must keep their clients’ disgusting, immoral, despicable, and yes, immoral secrets. However, I think the most interesting part is that the lawyers actually leveraged the privileged information they had about where the bodies where buried in a negotiated plea deal. They were certainly not ethically required to do that. THAT is disgusting.

The rules of professional ethics do not dictate that we be hired guns for our clients. We can choose whether or not we want to practice that way. The rules allow us to choose how moral we choose to be in our profession.

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