Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jan. 10, 2020
Legal ethics: No limit to lawyers’ professional responsibility
As we transition from 2019 to 2020, we need to consider issues such as what obligation does a lawyer have when a judge or public official has gone too far, taking legal positions unlike any others, going well beyond what the Constitution permits?
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Everyone living the Watergate years is familiar with the name John W. Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon. In his book, "Blind Ambition" (Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1976), Dean relates the story of how he crossed the ethical line from what he refers to as his "squeamishness" to the other side where he was to begin a life-changing course to follow what Nixon would order, starting with turning the "IRS loose" on a publication unfavorable to t...
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