Legal Ethics and Reform
Lawyers in other Occupations & Government
Lawyers tend to take their unique life view about lying into other
occupations - particularly politics, the media, and business. In these
areas dissimulation tends to serve them well as they selectively lead or
mislead voters, viewers, regulators, readers, customers, etc. Their
obvious success often causes non-lawyers in these fields to imitate
their questionable behavior patterns.
America's government is particularly disadvantaged when lawyers
serve in elected or appointed policy making positions. This nation's
government depends upon a separation of the three branches of
government - the legislative, the executive, and the judicial.
Unfortunately each lawyer always has one foot in the judicial branch by
virtue of his training and memberships in bar associations which are
regulated by courts and judges. The Constitution (Art III, Sect 2) has
provisions which allow the Congress to control which cases may be heard
by the Federal Courts. With so many lawyers in Congress, it is no
accident that Congress seldom exercises its rights to regulate and
control the activity of the Federal courts.
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