Ethical Dilemmas for Lawyers, Staff, and Management

Ethical Dilemmas are a pressing issue within any law enforcement or law agency the power that people have in positions such as these force them to share an equal or greater amount of reasonability. Ethics is defined as “the branch of philosophy that typically deals with values relating to human conduct with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions”. This definition of ethics courtesy of Webster dictionary shows just how complex the intricacies of ethics are and how major dilemmas might negatively impact departments for instances lawyers are plagued with ethical dilemmas on a day to day basis such as Lawyer advocacy, conflict of interest, Professional Responsibility and Staff and Management.

Should lawyer’s defend a clients they know are guilty is one of many ethical dilemmas that lawyers face on a day to day bias , granted the obligation of a lawyer is to give their client a just trail to the best of their ability let’s say a lawyer is defending a client who has committed the murder of three children and then the lawyer ask the most clichéd question that every lawyer must ask his or her client did you do it, now whether or not the person they are defending committed said murder poses the ethical dilemma should you or shouldn’t defend a guilty individual. Yes it is the ethical choose to defend said client to the best of your ability without forcing the defendant to indict themselves but this is a moral battle you know your client ruthlessly committed several murders and the right thing to do is to allow the children parents to receive justice.

Another Ethical Issue that tremendously affects the decisions lawyers make is Conflict of interest wh...

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...tive officer. This can pose ethical problems, because people who aren't lawyers can't give legal advice. Other employees, such as paralegals and secretaries, are also not permitted to offer legal advice, and law firms must carefully train staff to ensure they don't violate rules. Law firms must ensure client confidentiality and prohibit misappropriation of client funds now having the ability to manage clients funds is an ethical dilemma. Employees, for example, have to be aware that disbursements from insurance companies must go into an escrow account and not into a personal or business account. They must know state guidelines governing client confidentiality; they can't, for example, post information about clients on social networking sites or reveal details of a client's case to a third party even a client's family member without direct permission from the client.