Legal Ethics
Indiana AG Hopes to Improve Lawyers’ Reputation
Posted Jan 16, 2009, 08:28 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says he’d like to improve the reputation of lawyers.
At one time, lawyers were family counselors and trusted advisers, Zoeller says, and he’d like to revive the tradition, according to the Indianapolis Star. He said pro bono work has been an effective image booster.
"That giving back to the community raised the level of the position of a lawyer," he said.
The article says that most mornings, Zoeller recites the Thomas More lawyer's prayer. "Stand beside me in court, so that today I shall not, in order to win a point, lose my soul,” the prayer goes.
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