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Legal ethics - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Allegiance, Axiology, Burden, Casuistry, Charge, Commitment, Cosmology, Devoir, Duty, Epistemology, Fealty, Homage, Imperative, Logic, Loyalty |
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Legal ethics refers to an ethical code governing those in the practice of law. In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced by self-governing bar associations, which have the authority to disbar members who engage in unethical professional behavior.
Some philosophers, e.g., Michael Berumen, would argue that a lawyer's most important ethical obligation as a professional is his fiduciary duty, which arises out of his relationship to others and their having a reasonable basis of trust in him.
While legal codes of ethics differ from place to place, they tend to have some common statutes governing things like conflicts of interest, incompetence, bribery, coercion, communications with jurors, coaching witnesses, and so on.
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