
1. A legal practice should offer the lawyer
the opportunity to thrive as an attorney maximizing their legal and personal
skills to improve their client’s lives, the community, and enhance their
feeling of self-worth and contribution.
2. A legal practice should never lose focus
that the practice of law is a privilege afforded by the people.
3. The practice of law is a profession and
carries with it the pressures of any business. Yet, the lawyer should
temper his desire to succeed with service to the community and not allow the
practice to become a means of accumulating wealth.
4. A lawyer should be compensated for his
stock in trade-advice and time, while maintaining low overhead costs so as
to provide cost-effective representation.
5. When the shadow of injustice threatens
to enshroud a client, a lawyer’s practice should allow the flexibility for a
sliding scale of fees so that clients deserving of quality representation
are not offered up to the pressures of the bottom line.
6. A lawyer should temper his practice with
the knowledge that as attorneys and counselors at law we have a duty to
advise our clients on the law and the implications of their decision to
their family and the community.
7. A lawyer should never stray from what is
moral and right while never placing personal morals above the client’s
rights and desires.
8. A lawyer should never represent a client
that troubles the lawyer’s conscience. Each client deserves a lawyer
dedicated to his or her cause in heart, mind, and soul.
9. A lawyer should seek out ways to improve
the law through diligent efforts to change the laws that are oppressive,
unjust, and immoral.
10. When the practice of law is no longer a
means of wielding the sword of justice, a lawyer should search out clients
and causes that stoke the fire of the lawyer’s passions.
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