Our friends in Great Britain seem to do well with solicitors and barristers, two very different professions. Again, I do not advocate for a separation of trial lawyers and transactional lawyers, but I do bristle at the thought that this is supposed to be one of my core values. The lawyer's duty to promote access to justice. I can buy this one, but the devil is in the details. Duties and obligations do not make core values.
Medical doctors preserve the confidences of their patients.
Christians and Jews observe the Ten Commandments. To define core values in terms of the rules we follow demeans the term. When we went from the Code of Professional Responsibility, which had a significant aspirational component, to the current Rules of Professional Conduct, which mandate only a minimum standard of conduct, our ethical standards lost any claim to the moral high ground that could form the basis of core values for the legal profession. We have no consensus. In 1996, several ABA sections and committees sponsored a symposium on Teaching and Learning Professionalism.