Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Human Rights
Publication Date
Spring 1978
Abstract
It is a singularly good thing, I think, that law students, and even some lawyers and law professors, are questioning with increasing frequency and intensity whether "professionalism" is incompatible with human decency-asking, that is, whether one can be a good lawyer and a good person at the same time. I have a special interest in that question because at least one perceptive critic, Professor John T. Noonan, Jr., has drawn the inference from my book on lawyers' ethics that I do not believe that a decent, honest person can practice criminal law or teach others to do so.
Recommended Citation
Monroe H. Freedman,
Lawyer Doesn't Always Know Best - The Client's Wishes Must Not Be Ignored because of the Profession's Love Affair with Its Own Mysteries, 7 Hum. Rts. 28
(1978)
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