Critically analyse the development of legal ethics since the 1910s.  To what extent do the codes of conduct for solicitors and barristers regulate their behaviour in practice?

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‘A book on legal ethics, published eighty-two years ago, advised lawyers that if they must smoke in their offices, at least they should smoke cigars rather than cigarettes lest their clients believe “lawyers therein have little or no practice and beguile the time by deadening their senses with cigarette ‘dope.”’

Patrick L Baude, ‘An Essay on the Regulation of the Legal Profession and the Future of Lawyers’ Characters’ (1993) 68(3) Indiana Law Journal 647, 647.

Critically analyse the development of legal ethics since the 1910s.  To what extent do the codes of conduct for solicitors and barristers regulate their behaviour in practice?

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