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Can Lawyers Be More Ethical?

A Jewish Perspective on American Ethics Codes

By Samuel J. Levine
Topics:   Laws & Rules,  Morality; Ethics; Values,  Law; Jurisprudence,  Lawyers,  Judiciary; Judges
A legal scholar makes the argument that current American ethical codes actually contribute to a lack of ethics in the legal profession. He then offers the Jewish ... More

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Samuel J. Levine is Professor of Law and Director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center. Previously he served on the faculty of Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. He has published more than forty law review articles and has lectured widely in the areas of legal ethics, criminal law, law and religion, Jewish law, and constitutional law. Professor Levine graduated cum laude from Fordham Law School and with highest honors as a James Kent Scholar from Columbia Law School.

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Posted: July 19, 2011
Can Lawyers be more Ethical?
Dear Professor Levine:
Your Knowledge and presentation was pure power.
The answer to your question is YES, Lawyers should be more Ethical.
Two mayor reasons why they are not, the American system makes them less ethical, and more important lawyers they don't care about their clients, they are to busy trying to see what they can prove or not prove in a Court of Law and they forget to bring heaven closer to earth. Question? have you talk ( or how many Lawyers they do?)to past clients and ask them about their experience, how they feel about it?
Thank you for your powerful presentation
and keep the good work
Posted By Anonymous, Parkland, Florida



 

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