For this assignment, I settled on ‘ The Firm ’, which is a 1993 movie based on the novel that is called ‘ The Firm’ which was written by John Grisham and published in 1991. The movie revolves around a Mitch McDeere, who is a young man just about to graduate from Harvard Law School. Mitch is approached by Lambert, Bendini, and Locke on a behalf of ‘The Firm’ (the name of the organization that hires Mitch) who offers to make him an associate at the company. The offer is too good to turn down and so Mitch accepts the offer and moves with his wife, Memphis, where the company is located. Here, he finds Avery who takes him under his wings and mentors him at The Firm. At first, Mitch is oblivious to The Firm’s activities, neither is he suspicious that the firm can be conducting illegal operations despite all the expensive and unnecessary gifts that he is offered by the firm. But soon, however, things change when he is contacted by the FBI about the murders of two associates of The Firm. He is informed by the FBI investigators that they have a reason to suspect that there exists a link between the mob and the firm, and that any associate who has ever contemplated leaving the firm in the past has ended up dead. This information puts him in an awkward position where he has the option of working with the FBI and risk being discovered by the firm, which could cost him his law license due to attorney-client confidentiality, or alternatively, he can stay with the firm and end up in jail when the FBI cracks the firm’s illegal activities. Either way, his life is in danger. In the end, however, Mitch discovers proof that all The Firm’s associates are guilty of overbilling and this enables him to cooperate with the FBI without breaking any laws, thereby allowing him to keep both his law license and his life. The movie highlights a number of ethical principles in professional codes of ethics. The first and most obvious one in this case is confidentiality. Stake holders in law and medical practice (just to name a couple of concerned professions) are charged with the responsibility of taking to the grave any information given to them in confidentiality by their clients in the course of performing their duty/ work. In the movie, this phenomenon has been developed by Mitch, who is reluctant to work with the FBI in exposing The Firm’s illegal activities because he thinks that he is bound by attorney-client confidentiality. Therefore, by revealing The Firm’s illegal activities to the FBI investigators, Mitch would have acted against the law and would consequently have lost his law license. Additionally, he would have betrayed his colleagues/ partners, which bring us to another professional code of ethics, loyalty. In law practice (as portrayed by the movie), when an associate deals with a client, he/she is considered to be acting on a behalf of his firm. This means that all associates will be responsible for the outcome of such interactions, whether pleasant or otherwise. In the movie, Mitch faces the possibility of going to prison if the FBI uncovers the firm’s illegal activities, even though he was not personally involved in such dealings. This also brings out the aspect of honesty as a professional code of ethics.