{"id":4764,"date":"2004-03-17T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/03\/17\/justice-oconnor-sitting-in-so"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:56","slug":"justice-oconnor-sitting-in-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/03\/17\/justice-oconnor-sitting-in-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice O’Connor Sitting In (Sorta)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Who needs ethicalEsq<\/EM>, when we’ve got Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor saying all the right things about the condition of lawyers and lawyering in America today?  Justice O’Connor’s address to an audience at U. Wyoming School of Law is covered in an article<\/A> in today’s Casper, WY, Star-Tribune (“<\/EM>O’Connor: Lawyers ‘unhappy lot’,”<\/EM> 03-17-04; thanks to Howard<\/A> for the pointer.).<\/FONT><\/P>
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Here are a few telling excerpts from the article:<\/FONT><\/P>
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\"wrong  “Job dissatisfaction among lawyers is widespread, profound and growing worse. . . <\/EM><\/FONT>I think the decline of professionalism is partly responsible for this state of things,” O’Connor said.<\/FONT><\/P>
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 “Lawyers have to do more than know the law and the arts of practicing it,” the justice said. “A great lawyer always remembers the moral and social aspects of an attorney’s power and position<\/STRONG>.”<\/FONT><\/P>
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“It has been said that a nation’s laws are an expression of its highest ideals,” said O’Connor, “while the conduct of some lawyers in the United States has sometimes been an expression of its lowest.”<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P>
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 “A win-at-all costs mentality sometimes prevails,” she said. “Many attorneys believe that zealously representing their client means pushing all the rules of ethics and decency to the limit.”<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Now, if we could just get the Justice to take over this weblog.   I wonder if she likes haiku?<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who needs ethicalEsq, when we’ve got Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor saying all the right things about the condition of lawyers and lawyering in America today?  Justice O’Connor’s address to an audience at U. Wyoming School of Law is covered in an article in today’s Casper, WY, Star-Tribune (“O’Connor: Lawyers ‘unhappy lot’,” 03-17-04; thanks to Howard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1eQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13922,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}