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23 Legal Ethics 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/lethics23 and id is 1 raw text is: LEGAL ETHICS Routled e 2020, VOL. 23, NOS. 1-2, 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1080/1460728x.2020.1865508 Taylor & Francis Group Editorial This has been a profoundly disrupted year. Many of us have had some of our normal free- doms curtailed in the interests of public health. Some view those restrictions as no greater than necessary to mitigate the risks caused by Covid-19, others consider that governments and others have taken the opportunity to use the health emergency as a means to reduce free- doms or to turn away from those most disadvantaged such that inequality has increased during this period. Lawyers are often at the forefront of the fight to champion the rights of those least able to defend themselves but it can be difficult to know how best to contribute to justice in a period of such uncertainty. Anna Cody's article 'Reflection and clinical legal education: how do stu- dents learn about their ethical duty to contribute towards justice' provides evidence of ways in which we may develop nascent lawyers' abilities to reflect so as to support them to contribute to justice and the effective functioning of the legal system. She uses the opportunity afforded by 'disorienting moments' to assist law students to make sense of complexity and to deter- mine how best to act. This article discusses a range of methods by which legal educators may help law students to address and integrate values, emotions, thinking and analytical skills. In doing so she hopes that we may further our students' aspirations to fulfil their ethical duty to work towards justice in whatever form they are drawn to. Allan C. Hutchinson's essay 'Practising law for rich and poor people: towards a more pro- gressive approach' takes Stephen Wexler's essay 'Practicing Law for Poor People' as a starting point to review and develop the debate about the proper role and responsibilities of those who practise law for the disadvantaged. Hutchinson's essay reflects on the challenges that lawyers face, the extent to which they have met those challenges in the intervening fifty years since Wexler's essay and the extent to which they may have contributed to the institutionalization of poverty by the way that they have used the law as lawyers. Hutchinson's focus in the essay is on the way in which lawyers may change their contribution to the institutionalization of poverty by uncoupling or at least weakening the link between law, wealth and power. Kim Economides and Joaquim Leonel de Rezende Alvim's article 'Bar exams, legal ethics and the fight against corruption: lessons from Brazil' provides a detailed and nuanced assess- ment of the contribution of Bar exams in Brazil to the professional socialisation of lawyers. They analyse the changing content of the exams, the balance between subjects and the foci of the questions as well as the drivers behind these changes. This provides interesting insights into the way in which vocational training and the ethics of legal professionals may be influenced by media representations of lawyers, the discourse of corruption and attempts to address it. Thy posit that these insights may provide a potential guide to inform future legal education and training not just in Brazil but beyond. Marc Mason's 'Entity regulation, litigation rights and the changing meaning of profession- alism at the Bar of England and Wales' considers the changes wrought on litigation practice by barristers by the introduction of legal market liberalisation in England and Wales courtesy of the Legal Services Act 2007. His article examines amendments to the Bar Standards Hand- book and ethical implications for the barrister's profession. It situates these changes within existing theoretical understandings of the legal professions and professionalism and argues © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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