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Title: The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer: Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed by Richard A. Zitrin, Carol M. Langford ISBN: 0345433149 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.7

Rating: 5
Summary: Should be required reading at every law school ethics class.
Comment: All judges and practicing lawyers need to read this book. All ethics professors should take two weeks discussion of the issues raised. Having practiced for 28 years, I have seen all the wrong sides of our profession. I love helping people, and that's why I chose practicing law, notwithstanding the faults in the legal system. This book expresses for me how I feel about "lawyering", and probably exposes all the feelings that the overwhelming number of American attorneys feel about it.

Rating: 5
Summary: Catalog of all the Ethical Problems; Short on Solutions
Comment: Zitrin and Langford challenge those in the legal profession to aspire towards a higher standard than the billable hour. They do well at illustrating the ethical conflicts lawyers face daily with examples from cases that stretch the limits of honest representation. In the end, however, attorneys looking for ethical guidance or for ways out of the ethical dilemmas and conflicts Zitrin and Langford present, will be a little disappointed as the authors only catalog the extremes and the abuses without ever offering solutions; these extremes and abuses are the same cases and examples lawyers were presented with in law school and agonized over in ethics courses. A young member of the profession looking for some guidance from these experienced attorneys will unfortunately find no guidance forthcoming, so in this respect, Zitgrin and Langford do no more than cast stones. Yet the book is extremely valuable as it forces the attorney to return to those law school hypotheticals and ethics dilemmas and wrestle with them once again, this time from the perspective of one who has experienced the pressures to pad the timesheet, to withhold the discovery request, and to justify what most folks would call "lies" as zealous representation. Zitrin and Langford also illustrate that there is often a huge gap between what is ethical and what is moral, and for these reasons, this book should be taught in the law schools along with the Model Rules and the case books.

Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read. Better, and more engrossing, than fiction!
Comment: We've all heard the lawyer jokes. We all suspect that "guilty" or "not guilty" is determined largely by how much you're willing to pay for representation. We think there's only a tenuous relationship, at best, bewteen "truth" and "justice". And we believe slimeball lawyers - the ones who ignore professional ethics and responsibility - are the root problem of a deteriorating US legal system. What this book does, and does well, is illuminate problems of legal ethics and morality, and in a highly engaging style. The authors present numerous real-life accounts - many nearly unbelievable - of the actual behavior of some lawyers. And they put them in the context of our flawed legal system. But they also show how it can be improved. Provocative and highly recommended.

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