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Scenario

When financial pressure tests professional ethics between partners

My law firm partner and I disagree about taking on a case that would be financially great but ethically questionable, and we're realizing we never really aligned on what our professional standards would be when money got tight. We both need the income but I can't shake feeling like this is exactly the kind of compromise that changes who you are as a lawyer.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two professionals are discovering that shared economic needs and individual ethical boundaries create competing pressures neither anticipated when forming their partnership.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Professional identity and its limits?”

Peri

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