Government,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Sep. 3, 2021
Professional responsibility: Using courts for purposes never intended
Last month, an amazing decision by U.S. District Court Judge Linda V. Parker found nine lawyers from different jurisdictions seeking to make former President Donald Trump Michigan’s official 2020 presidential choice, filed this lawsuit in bad faith and for improper purpose.
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.
First off, let us be specific regarding the terms "legal ethics" and "professional responsibility" than customarily has been considered in the legal profession to date. It is the general area of professional responsibility within which we consider the specific ethical rules. There is a considerable segment of legal scholarship of the opinion the law schools have failed to discharge their responsibility in this two-pronged philosophy. See Ross Cranston, "Legal...
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