ABSTRACT
Many law professors and legal profession members are concerned about the integrity decline. They prepare casebooks and teach courses about professional responsibility and serve as ethics officers in law firms. Such activities are helpful in reinforcing what survives of the profession's exalted sense of public responsibility, but with regard to law schools one has to pay attention to what they do and to what their faculty members say in courses on professional responsibility. In a different approach to helping students get jobs, Southern Methodist's law school had begun paying profit-making law firms to hire its students as intern. People who act immorally are at risk of getting caught breaking the law, so that the last line of defence against an amoral rogue lawyer is the legal system itself. Lawyers are made to pay fines to the government and compensation to fraud victims because they have given what they know or should know to be false testimony before banking regulators.
