Richard A Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues

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.
-"Deprofessionalizing the law," according to Wasserstrom, would

A) strengthen equal partnership in the lawyer-client relationship.
B) strengthen the amoral approach of lawyers toward their clients.
C) weaken the ethical codes of lawyers.
D) weaken features of the lawyer-client relationship that produce paternalistic and impersonal relationships.