Richard A Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues

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Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues
Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients.
-The ___________ of the lawyer guarantees that every criminal defendant, guilty or innocent, deserves to be well represented.

• A) approach
• B) amorality
• C) inclination
• D) intuition

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