Therapeutic Jurisprudence (‘TJ’) and virtue ethics are major parallel forces
for good in legal practice. Both seek to understand and mediate frailness in
human behaviour and explain why such ‘goodness’ is important for lawyers and
their clients. But while a TJ practitioner and a virtue ethicist are often in
agreement, they are fraternal rather than identical twins. This paper is addressed
to those practising lawyers for whom TJ may become a central motivation to
practice law, by reflecting on the moral advantages that virtue ethics can offer
such practitioners in their daily decision making
