ABSTRACT
Lawyers, like other professionals, acknowledge gravely that they shoulder special responsibilities, and believe that they should conform to <chigher” ethical standards than laypersons.2 Yet, lawyers also claim special warrant for engaging in some activities which, were they performed by others, would be likely to draw moral censure.3 Skeptical of this claim to special license, Macaulay asked “[w]hether it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head, and a band round his neck, do for a guinea what, without these appendages, he would think it wicked and infamous to do for an empire.” 4 This conflict may trouble the layperson, but for the lawyer who must come to grips with his professional responsibilities it is especially problematic.
