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Physicist Yuval Ne'eman, president of Tel Aviv University, says that he and other Israeli scientists were instrumental in persuading the six to end their hunger strike last week. He describes the phone calls as enabling the Russian scientists to maintain their sense of value. "We want them to...
The high honor of the legal profession sometimes seems more apparent to the leaders of bar associations than to the general public.
Although ethics courses are not widely taught in law schools, lawyers are instructed by the American Bar Association's code of professional responsibility to avoid even "the appearance of impropriety." Many lawyers reflexively defend their profession against current criticisms by arguing, as did one Los Angeles attorney, that "those people had stopped being lawyers. They were either 'gofers' or politicians." Another argument currently heard in legal circles is that governmental scandals are bound to involve lawyers simply because there are so many lawyers in government. These defenses are not very persuasive. Lawyers are numerous in government partly...
There is, then, no special defense for the Watergate lawyers, and some legal leaders want to see them specially punished. The severest professional punishment that could be visited on any culpable Watergate lawyer is disbarment, which can be inflicted even for misconduct that is not serious enough for criminal prosecution. The A.B.A., says New York Attorney Martin Garbus wryly, "sets forth high standards for lawyers-a higher standard than is anywhere articulated for Presidents." In perfect seriousness, Garbus is gathering 500 signatures for a petition to the California and New York bar associations -both of which have the President...
That is indisputable, but a harsher judgment ought perhaps to be rendered as well. Although lawyers have always had to be concerned about striking the proper balance between advice and advocacy, there are special pressures today because of the way some of the best and brightest attorneys practice their profession...