«Deference is owed to discipline committees because they are tribunals
composed of members of the profession and of the public with the expertise to assess «the level of threat to the public and the... profession by certain forms of behaviour,»» Rouleau wrote.
Within three years, the LPP has created a multi-teamed approach among groups across Ryerson University, in partnership with external service providers and the Ontario Bar Association, working with
hundreds of members of the profession each year, to develop and deliver to hundreds of licensing candidates training that effectively develops and assesses their key lawyering skills through simulated files.
As colorful and interesting as these objections are, even more interesting are the many objections that do not even try to hide that the House of Delegates» priority must lie not with the best interests in the public, but with the best interests
of the members of the profession — or more accurately, with the perceived best interests not of the members of the profession as a whole, but the members of the ABA.
As we entered the 20th century, the need for professional standards led to the creation of professional bodies to govern the conduct
of members of each profession, with strict rules of professionalism.