Richard A Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues

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Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues
Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients.
-The relationship of inequality between lawyers and clients is intrinsic to the existence of professionalism for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) lawyers possess expert knowledge.
B) lawyers possess technical language.
C) clients lack the objectivity required to effectively represent themselves.
D) clients are in a position to evaluate how well the professionals perform.