Add to ORKGThe recurrent movement to call or recall lawyers to professionalism is a moral argument. It is an argument made to individual lawyers, a claim among lawyers, that professionalism has to do with being a good person. I see two aspects to the claim that professionalism is a moral value: one aspect says to a person be professional. It is an admonition to virtue. The other aspect says to a person, be in the profession—be of it, with an appeal that seems familiar from other admonitions we have heard to align ourselves with groups that are supposed to make us better persons: Join the youth group at the temple, or at the church; be a Scout; if you want to meet nice people don\u27t go to bars. Let\u27s look at these two aspects of professionalis...