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Whatever the outcome, the Agnew case-to say nothing of the long roster of Watergate-tainted lawyers-suggests that the legal profession has not been notably successful in preventing ethical lapses. Nor has it policed itself very vigorously. Said one disgusted delegate to the American Bar Association's annual...
Traditionally, legal bellies have been kept far from any such teeth. As recently as 1970, an A.B.A. committee, chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, examined the profession's system of ethics enforcement and found "a scandalous situation." It reported that "lawyers convicted of federal income tax violations...
There seems now to be a widespread acknowledgment that the bar cannot afford to back away from its new concerns. As one state bar ethics committee observed in an annual report, the profession "has a headache that cries out for fast relief. We will compound our own cure or someone...
Since the trial of the original Watergate Seven began in January, Judge Sirica has received more than 40,000 letters from all over the world, most of them favorable and full of praise for his conduct. Particularly notable are the notes from men and women of his own profession. A...
Retiring New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, 52, has done well by Broadway in charity-benefit walk-on roles. Could Broadway have done without him? No, was the unanimous opinion of the 400 show-biz folk who crowded into a Manhattan restaurant last week to thank Lindsay for his...