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.
-Paternalism occurs when

• A) clients think they know better than their lawyers.
• B) lawyers think they know better than their clients.
• C) clients are patronizing toward their lawyers.
• D) lawyers behave in a weak and vulnerable manner toward their clients.

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Definitions:

Consistency

The quality of always behaving or performing in a similar way, maintaining a standard.

Consistency

The quality of always behaving or performing in a similar manner, maintaining uniformity in actions over time.

Distinctiveness

The quality of being noticeably different from something else, especially from others in the same category or group.

Consensus

General agreement among the members of a group or community, often used as a decision-making process in collaborative environments.