Professionalism.

Unfortunately, and it is a very considerable detriment to the noble and learned legal profession, the Guidelines for Professional Conduct do not include morality, which is a higher standard of conduct than ethics nor truth as the highest value in the advisory system. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Marvin E. Frankel's brilliant, most insightful, and prescient law review article, "The Search for Truth: An Umperial View," should be required reading in every law school in the land and a studied and learned condition for admission to the bar.

So much needless bickering, hurt feelings, needless litigation, energy, expense, and time would be avoided because the moral standard of right and wrong in consideration of legal matters would be applied. The kneejerk motion to dismiss a complaint and other legalistic tactics and the knee-jerk lawsuit would far more tend to be avoided

A firmer foundation for American democracy, government, and constitutional law would be established. Lawyers are the guardians of the law but, alas, the public's...