Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues
Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients.
-According to Wasserstrom, lawyers tend to see their clients as ___________ rather than persons.
A) objects
B) experts
C) professionals
D) adults

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Wasserstrom argues that lawyers often view their clients as objects rather than as individuals with personal needs and concerns, which contributes to a depersonalized and paternalistic lawyer-client relationship.

Richard A Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues