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5 Pages • Topic Notes • Year: Pre-2021
Conceptions of Legal Ethics in Popular Culture • The image of lawyers in popular culture have revealed a declining ethicality, faith and trust in lawyers • Decline in heroism inlawyers • Descriptions of bad lawyers: dishonest, greedy, manipulative, mean, crafty, selfish, wily, fee-focused, • Illustrations of good lawyers: Atticus Finch, Sir Thomas More, Clarence Darrow, erry Mason • Evil lawyers: 'The Devil's Advocate' Of Characters and Acts • Simon suggest that lawyers must develop ethical dispositions by exercising judgement with well-internalised values and prudent exercise of both rationality and human care for others' • James Boyd White: 'it is only through study of the humanities side of law that a lawyer can become fully human' Legal Ethics Characters in Popular Culture Good Lawyers • Commitment to principles and the representation of 'justice' is a quality that unites lawyer heroes • People honour lawyers who seek to serve the end of justice by seeking unpopular clients, seeking justice in the form of equality, by obtaining compensation for the wrongfully injured or representing a large social principle • Ironies: • justice often requires an 'untruthful turn' • Lawyers may trample on the truth to seek justice • Lawyers may disregard an ethical rule to seek the truth • Good lawyers are devoted to their profession and sometimes: • Neglect families (Atticus Finch and his daughter) • Or have unfulfilling personal lives to get there • Heroes are imperfect and still lose • Real heroes in modern legal stories are often not lawyers but paralegals, or legal secretaries (Donna and Rachel from Suits) • These paralegals suggest that not enough lawyers are available to work for 'the little people' • Other lawyers put a lot at stake to obtain justice - Marshall Ericsson and his fight for the environment
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