 A lawyer is a specimen for clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.
As an agent of clients, a lawyer does various functions. As an advisor, a lawyer provides a client with an informed understanding of the client's legal rights and obligations and explains their practical implications.
As an advocate, a lawyer obsessively emphasizes the client's position under the rules of the adversary system. As a representative, a lawyer seeks a result advantageous to the client but dependable with requirements of honest dealing with others. As a mediator between clients, a lawyer seeks to adjust their different interests as an advisor and, to a limited extent, as a spokesperson for each client. As an assessor, a lawyer examines a client's legal affairs and reports about them to the client or to others.
In all professional functions a lawyer should be capable, punctual and diligent. A lawyer should keep a client's confidences and secrets relating to representation except so far as disclosure is required or permitted by the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law. A lawyer should preserve communication with a client concerning the representation. A lawyer should use the law's processes only for legitimate purposes and not to harass or threaten others.
A lawyer's behavior should be conventional to the requirements of the law, both in professional service to clients and in the lawyer's business and personal affairs. A lawyer should show respect for the legal system and for those who serve it, including judges, other lawyers and public officials. It is a lawyer's duty, to challenge the rectitude of official action; it is also a lawyer's duty to support legal process. As a public resident, a lawyer should seek development of the law, the administration of justice and the quality of service rendered by the legal profession. A lawyer should refine knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients; use that knowledge in improvement of the law and work to strengthen legal education. A lawyer should be aware of defects in the administration of justice and of the fact that the poor, and sometimes persons who are not poor, cannot pay for competent legal assistance, and should therefore devote professional time and civic influence in their behalf. A lawyer should help the legal profession in pursuing these objectives and should help the bar regulate itself in the public interest.
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