Case

Indeed they do. Starting in the late 1980s, a number of bar associations took steps in this regard. Indeed, that is how I personally became active in the professionalism movement. Back in 1987 and 1988, shortly after the Stanley Commission Report was published and circulated, I found myself chairing, simultaneously, two committees on professionalism, one appointed by the President of the Cleveland Bar Association and the other one established by the Torts and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA, commonly known as "TIPS." At the initial meeting of each of those committees, I put forward the idea of developing what I called a "Lawyers Creed of Professionalism," which would be comprised of a list of very specific "dos" and "don'ts" as to how lawyers should deport themselves in their everyday dealings with each other, with judges and with their own clients. Both committees accepted that idea with enthusiasm and set to work on drafting such a Creed. The end result was a single document that was the joint work product