Unscrupulous But Zealous Advocacy: Ethics Lessons From David E. Kelley’s Tv Lawyers

Throughout the history of the legal profession, lawyers have been subjected to high ethical and professional standards. Following the Watergate scandal, the legal profession renewed its focus on ensuring that lawyers behave ethically. Unfortunately, in spite of the promulgation of new ethical rules and requirements that law schools teach classes on legal ethics, public perception of the legal profession’s ethical standards has remained consistently negative.