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Code of Conduct
A professional code of conduct is essential for any profession. Indeed, a code of conduct is one of the things that uniformly separates professions from other types of jobs. Because professionals such as lawyers, doctors, accountants, and therapists hold positions of trust in which they can do both great good and great harm to their clients, it is imperative that professionals are bound to a code of conduct that limits their entirely human tendency to succumb to temptation.
The professional codes of conduct vary from profession to profession as one might expect, but they also share a number of similarities. Most codes of conduct, including those for lawyers as well as others involved in the legal system such as judges, include a provision that professionals do not misrepresent themselves. This requires lawyers to be truthful when describing their education, skills, experience, and training.
Professionals cannot be motivated entirely or even primarily by money: It is certainly not professional to perform a service just because one can charge for it. This is entirely different from charging a legitimate fee for a legitimate service that one has performed. It is simply not acceptable to essentially make up a service and convince the client that she or he needs it when this is in fact not true.
Another common aspect of professional codes of conduct...
This can be a difficult task to accomplish because it tends to have a conservative effect on a profession. And while a professional should not heedlessly throw out a practice simply because it has been around for a long time, neither should he or she refuse to consider a new way of doing something simply because it is new.
A professional code of conduct helps individuals understand what their duties are vis-a-vis their clients, their colleagues, and indeed society as a whole. The American Bar Association outlines this larger sense of obligation as dictated by legal professional codes of conduct:
As a public citizen, a lawyer should seek improvement of the law, access to the legal system, the administration of justice and the quality of service rendered by the legal profession. As a member of a learned profession, a lawyer should cultivate knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients, employ that knowledge in reform of the law and work to strengthen legal education. In addition, a lawyer should further the public's understanding of and confidence in the rule of law and the justice system because legal institutions in a constitutional democracy depend on popular participation and support to maintain their authority. (American Bar Association. Retrieved from…
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