Certainly, the heightened awareness and the consensus arising from the debate have helped focus on a path forward for the legal profession. When legal service is involved this can only be done if the lawyers abide by and are required to abide by the core values of the profession. Your Board of Governors will move forward with initiatives calculated to require all persons delivering legal services to do so within the bounds of the law and the Rules of Professional Conduct while at the same time permitting those acting within such bounds to address the needs of clients for a continuum of services, both legal and nonlegal. Your Board will endeavor to address the on-going mobility and globalization of the practice of law. Your Board recognizes the importance of a profession elevated in its standards and obligations but operating in a world with others less burdened by devotion to public interest and the rule of law.
All lawyers are members of one profession subject in each jurisdiction to the law governing lawyers.
The law governing lawyers was developed to protect the public interest and to preserve the core values of the legal profession that are essential to the proper functioning of the American justice system. State bar associations and other entities charged with attorney discipline should reaffirm their commitment to enforcing vigorously their respective law governing lawyers. Jurisdictions should retain and enforce laws that generally bar the practice of law by entities other than law firms.