Richard A. Wasserstroms Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Es

Richard A. Wasserstroms article Lawyers as Professionals somewhat Moral Issues.Criticisms of lawyers are the topic in Richard A. Wasserstroms article Lawyers as Professionals Some Moral Issues. Wasserstrom broke this topic into two main areas of discussion. The first suggests that lawyers operate with essentially no regard for any negative impact of their efforts on the worldly concern at large. Analysis of the race that exists between the lawyer and their client was the second topic of discussion. Here the charge is that it is the lawyer-client relationship which is morally objectionable because it is a relationship which the lawyer dominates and in which the lawyer typically, and perhaps inevitably, treats the client in both an impersonal and a paternalistic fashion.Wasserstrom considers a few options with in his discussion concerning a multitude of aspects faced by lawyers. The lawyers situation is different from that of other professionals. The lawyer is vulnerable to some mor al criticism that does not as readily or as easily attach to any other professional. Thi...