A lawyer should aid the legal profession in pursuing these objectives and should help the Bar to regulate itself in the public interest. A lawyer should strive to attain the highest level of skill, to improve the law and the legal profession, and to exemplify the legal profession's ideals of public service. B. Service 1. Changes in human affairs and imperfections in human institutions make necessary constant efforts to maintain and improve our legal system. Lawyers must assume a major responsibility to work for improvements in the quality of our law and the judicial and extra-judicial systems through which it is administered and vindicated.
Lawyers are in a unique position to identify unjust and outdated laws and to seek reforms.
A lawyer knows the strengths and weaknesses of our courts, their personnel, their structures, and their procedures. They are in a position to evaluate and contrast the relative merits of the judicial process, the administrative process, the legislative process, as well as arbitration and other alternative methods of dispute resolution. A lawyer should contribute his insights and his time toward improvements in the quality of our law and our system. C. Improving the Profession 1. Judges and administrative officials having adjudicatory powers ought to be persons of integrity, competence, and suitable temperament.