The influence of traditional legal culture on the construction of lawyers' professional ethics

1. First of all, lawyer's professional ethics is a special morality inherent in lawyer's role and occupation. Its content must serve the lawyer's practice technology, law and legal procedure, so it is a procedural ethics and skill ethics. It is an ethics that does not necessarily serve substantive justice, but must obey procedural justice.

2. Secondly, the lawyer's professional ethics is a bottom line moral standard, a moral requirement that a qualified lawyer must meet, rather than an idealized moral indicator of a noble person. As long as a lawyer meets the ethical requirements of the moral bottom line-profession, then his or her personal interests and substantive injustice are not among the moral criticisms.

Finally, the special morality of lawyers is quite different from the general morality of the public. Mass morality is a kind of morality that serves substantive justice. For individual cases, the requirements of the masses are to discover the truth and facts as much as possible and use legal weapons as much as possible to achieve the purpose of punishing evil and promoting good. However, the lawyer's behavior and morality are often limited to the procedure, which can't balance the fair opinions and positions on the case, and can't absolutely pursue substantive justice. Lawyers usually think that' justice precedes truth, and only what the procedure allows is right and good, and in most cases, it is only for the right and good of the parties.