In America, the power achieved by the legal profession's control of government has enormously increased all of those temptations for all lawyers. Every opportunity that can bring income to the members of the profession under color of law, has been developed more completely here than anywhere else. So has the temptation to be dishonest in the United States . Lawyers' degree of professional opportunity. As fiduciaries, lawyers play a role which combines high levels of temptation with high levels of opportunity.
Lawyers often give investment advice to their clients or invest funds for their clients.
They represent their clients in disputes with others. Lawyers thus have immense opportunity to do wrong. It is fair to say that no other professional group worldwide has as much opportunity. As with temptation and in the same manner, the American legal profession's control of government has dramatically increased its opportunity for wrongdoing . Lawyers' risk of discovery.