Canceling Lawyers

Preface 1. Swiss Banks and Nazi Gold Crisis at Cravath Against nonaccountability The justification of John Adams The Freedman-Tigar debate "Ethics rules" and client choice . for American lawyers Contested meanings 2. Morality and Relationships: Accountability and Reactive Attitudes Morality beyond duties and rights Reactive attitudes Reactive attitudes and reasonable expectations Reactive attitudes and the scope of the moral community 3. Harvey Weinstein, Ronald Sullivan, and Harvard University Joining Weinstein's dream team Answering "the Question" Making clients radioactive 4. Blame, the Meaning of Actions, and the Ethics of Blame Blameworthiness vs. wrongness What do you mean by that? The ethics of blaming How wide is the circle of blame? What standards apply to determine blameworthiness and appropriate blaming responses? Toleration Don't feed the trolls 5. Boycotts of Law Firms and the Ethics of Informal Social Sanctions The "obsequious servants of business"? Down with Big Oil Reasonable disagreement and the role of the legal system Formal and informal power 6. The Challenge of Role Morality The persistence of the personal Three mistakes about professional roles Mistake #1: Too much weight on the duties of the role Mistake #2: Too little appreciation for the significance of the role Mistake #3: Excluding personal identity altogether Roles and professional ethics Are roles exclusionary or just very weighty? 7. McCarthyism or Legitimate Criticism? Canceling Government Lawyers From the Trump administration back to polite society? Blame and the Big Lie Whose side are you on? The "Department of Jihad" Fidelity to law and abusive legal advice 8. Regret and Moral Costs Excruciating cases How moral remainders arise (and what to do with them) Conclusions