Legal Ethics

Abstract

My fellow-students of the law: In this morning\u27s lecture, I attempted to show, first the necessity for the profession of the law, and the impossibility of maintaing such a profession unless its members are paid for their services; and, second, that such a system, when conducted under ethical rules, some of which I summarily stated, contributes most effectively to the cause of justice and equity. I would like now to consider the Code of Legal Ethics more at length, under some eight different heads