En route to one of my first international meetings on legal ethics, I had a dispiriting preview of the topic. At a Canadian passport control desk, an obviously bored official began probing the “business purpose” of my trip. On learning my subject, his lip curled as if he were wondering why Canadian tax dollars were being squandered on a subject so futile. “Legal ethics? Really?,” he asked. “Bit of an oxymoron, don’t you think?”
This past July, more than 170 experts from around the globe assembled to discuss that much maligned but critically important subject. Stanford’s Center on the Legal Profession, with co-sponsorship from the American Bar Association, hosted the fourth International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC), held this year for the first time in the United States. Two themes stood out. One was the disconnect between the increasingly international dimensions of legal practice and the structure of professional regulation. A second theme was the need for less insular approaches to the delivery and oversight of lawyers’ services.
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