This is such an important issue for all professions, not only law, although law certainly bears the weight of government. It would be disastrous if the integrity of the Code of Ethics were diluted by the Department of Justice to the extent that medicine, for example, has been by market forces in our economy. Graves’s defense of legal ethics is impassioned and impeccable, and she is justified in using the adjective “immoral” to characterize the manner in which Todd Blanche and others have use the DOJ to intimidate state bar associations.
This is such an important issue for all professions, not only law, although law certainly bears the weight of government. It would be disastrous if the integrity of the Code of Ethics were diluted by the Department of Justice to the extent that medicine, for example, has been by market forces in our economy. Graves’s defense of legal ethics is impassioned and impeccable, and she is justified in using the adjective “immoral” to characterize the manner in which Todd Blanche and others have use the DOJ to intimidate state bar associations.