Adding Value for Lawyers, Clients, And the Public: The Business Benefits of Ethically-Informed Practice

When [managers] claim that competition or capital markets are relentless in their demands, and that individual companies and managers have no scope for choices, it is on the strength of the false premise of determinism that they free themselves from any sense of moral or ethical responsibility for their actions. (1) There is a growing sense the public no longer accepts that something can be legal and yet unethical, particularly in relation to the conduct expected of legal professionals. (2) Nationally, law societies appear to be responding and making an effort to ensure that their members attain the goals set for them by the public. (3)