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Much of the criticism centers on the bar's bible for self-regulation, the Code of Professional Responsibility. In defining a lawyer's duty to his client and the law, the code manages to be vague, rigid, complex and contradictory-all at the same time. "So long as its practitioners are guided by these principles," the code proclaims, "the law will continue to be a noble profession." But Illinois Law Professor Thomas D. Morgan, writing in the Harvard Law Review, found that virtually every section of the code serves lawyers first, protecting them from public criticism and increasing...
...Glenn is right, it would be difficult to deny that a key figure in the ethics binge has been Lance's boss, Jimmy Carter. Even the President, however, seemed ready to bend his rigid rules a bit. As he noted at his press conference last week in connection with another touchy subject, "There are many things in life that are not fair"*-and perhaps he has come to recognize that one of those things may be his demand that Lance rid himself so precipitately of his stock holdings. The President's decision to relax his demand for Lance...
...underplays it beautifully. It is no joke going one on one with him for possession of your own soul. The conflict of wills between him and Benson-though it may be implausible in some of its details-is just the kind of dumb confrontation an eager kid and a rigid systemaniac can stumble into...
Part of the reason is a studied even-handedness that smacks more of documentary than drama. Deborah (Kathleen Quinlan) is blessed with an extraordinarily sympathetic and skillful psychiatrist, Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson), but the other psychiatrists are portrayed as stodgy and rigid. Most of the patients in the disturbed ward are worse off than Deborah (Sylvia Sidney, Signe Hasso and Susan Tyrrell, among others, have a high old time playing them), but one-who befriends Deborah-is better. One of the male nurses is brutal, but another is kind...
Harvard's campaign resembled, on a grand scale, the drive engineered by John Sytek, vice president of Gnomon Copy, against District 65 members who tried to organize Gnomon workers. Both efforts argued that the union's rigid bureaucratic structure would hamper employer-employee relations, and stressed what they called District 65's poor record both in organizing elections and in negotiations. Each implied that the union was seeking to organize in Massachusetts only to generate dues revenue to offset losses from its New York operation; as Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for employee relations, said...