That’s a totally mistaken understanding of lawyers’ roles. We are highly trusted components of a system for resolving disputes and governing society. That system isn’t for us. It’s for everyone else. Our only job is to ensure that the system operates according to the specification.
It’s not our job to leverage our trusted position in the system to advance our personal view of morality or ethics. Society doesn’t need us to be its conscience. Indeed, that destroys the very system we are supposed to serve.
It’s not our job to leverage our trusted position in the system to advance our personal view of morality or ethics. Society doesn’t need us to be its conscience. Indeed, that destroys the very system we are supposed to serve.