Rule of Law(yers), The

In recent years, several lawyers and law professors have written books about the decline of ethical behavior in the legal profession.\u27 They have found that lawyers are more adversarial, less civil, less honest, less concerned with justice, and less happy than in the past.2 Associates are less loyal to firms, and firms are less loyal to associates. 3 Many lawyers lament what the profession has become. They wonder whether they do a good thing. Can I be a lawyer and a good person? Do lawyers add to the misery of the world