Professionalism Means Putting Your Profession First Davis, Michael professional ethics law, Ask a lawyer what "professionalism" means and you are likely to hear that professionalism means putting your client first or acting as an officer of the court. Only rarely will a lawyer say that professionalism means putting justice first. Never, I think, will a lawyer even suggest that professionalism means putting your profession first. Yet this is the thesis of this paper. The paper has three parts. Section I makes certain distinctions necessary to prevent misunderstanding my thesis. Section II and III develop the thesis into a conception of professionalism. Sections IV and V use that conception to help with the most difficult of undertakings, justifying professional discipline to someone convicted of professional misconduct which harmed neither her client nor an identifiable third party. Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Vol. 2, Issue 1. Summer 1988. pp.341-357. Georgetown School of Law 2007 1988 Article printed matter application/pdf islandora:10209 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:10209 CSEP / Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access