This books examines the fundamental values and principles of conduct in the professions, focusing specifically on four areas: law, politics, medicine and business. One central question unifies its inquiry into the different professions: should the principles for judging the actions of professionals be the same as those used to judge private individuals, or do these professions require special moral principles to guide their conduct. The author considers arguments deriving from the underlying institutional goals of each profession in turn.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Legal Profession's Role in American Society -- A. The United States: A Unique Government of Lawyers -- B. The Role of the Lawyer in America -- C. Attack on Lawyers and the Legal Profession -- 1. The American Bar Association Responds -- 2. The President's Counsel Defends -- D. Access to the American Legal System in Historical Perspective -- 1. Against the Bar: (...) a Critique of Professor Auerbach's Views -- 2. Unequal Justice: a Review -- E. Legal Education -- Part II: Lawyers and the Search for Truth: Conflict or Harmony? -- A. The Art of Legal Advocacy: Duties and Obligations -- B. The Lawyer as a Hired Gun -- C. The Adversary Nature of the American Legal System: A Historical Perspective -- D. The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View -- 1. Judge Frankel's Search for Truth -- 2. The Advocate, The Truth, and Judicial Hackles: A Reaction to Judge Frankel's Idea -- E. The Attorney's Duty to Disclose the Commission of Criminal Acts-Two Views of the Lake Pleasant Case -- 1. The Impropriety of the Attorneys' Actions -- 2. The Propriety of the Attorneys' Actions -- F. Attempting to Regulate Perjurious Testimony: The Massachusetts Experience -- G. Perjury: Stay In or Pull Out? -- Part III: Regulating Professional Ethics: The Alger Hiss Reinstatement Controversy -- A. The Brief for the Petitioner, Alger Hiss -- B. Judgment of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court -- C. Reinstatement Dilemma: The Hiss Decision and Its Effects upon Disciplinary Enforcement -- Part IV: Special Prespectives -- A. The Washington Lawyer: Some Musings -- B. The International Lawyer: Extra-territorial Application of Professional Responsibility Standards -- C. Ethics in Medicine and Law: Standards and Conflicts -- Contributors' Acknowledgments -- Index. (shrink)