ABSTRACT
One of the reasons for the public’s disdain for lawyers is found in the role they play vis-à-vis their clients: Are attorneys in an amoral “hired-gun role” or are they professionals who balance their clients’ interests against respect for the law and some objective standard of justice? This concept of the lawyer as a legal advocate (with no individual contribution of morality) versus a moral
agent (whereby the lawyer imposes a personal view of morality into his or her activities for the client) has been discussed and debated vigorously in the literature.
