More than one in five law students surveyed in the UK and the US admit they would falsify time records for personal and business gain, according to the first cross-jurisdiction quantitative study of the ethics of law students published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession earlier this month.
In addition, the study found that US legal trainees are collectively more ethical than those in England and Wales, that female respondents showed more ethical conduct than their male peers and also that those intending to practice business law were seen as experiencing a ‘weakening of moral identities’ compared to their peers intending to work for governments.
