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The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

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55skill to identify the administrative skills necessary to organize and managelegal work effectively and (8) finally, the skill <strong>of</strong> analyzing the skillsinvolved in recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas.5.11 Pr<strong>of</strong>essional values, according to the Mac Crate Report, include‘training in pr<strong>of</strong>essional responsibilities’ and involve more than ‘just thespecifics <strong>of</strong> the Code <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Responsibility and the Model Rules<strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Conduct’; they should encompass ‘the values <strong>of</strong> thepr<strong>of</strong>ession’, including the ‘obligations and accountability <strong>of</strong> a pr<strong>of</strong>essionaldealing with the lives and affairs <strong>of</strong> clients’. <strong>The</strong>se values are many, suchas, (1) the value <strong>of</strong> competent representation, analyzing the ideals to whicha lawyer should be committed as a member <strong>of</strong> a pr<strong>of</strong>ession dedicated to theservice <strong>of</strong> clients, (2) the value <strong>of</strong> striving to promote justice, fairness andmorality; the ideals to which a lawyer should be committed as a member <strong>of</strong>a pr<strong>of</strong>ession that bears special responsibilities for the quality <strong>of</strong> justice, (3)the value <strong>of</strong> striving to improve the pr<strong>of</strong>ession; explore the ideals to whicha lawyer should be committed as a member <strong>of</strong> a ‘self-governing’pr<strong>of</strong>ession, (4) the value <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional self-development, analyzing theideals to which the lawyer should be committed as a member <strong>of</strong> a ‘learnedpr<strong>of</strong>ession’. <strong>The</strong> Report also refers to the relationship between the ‘skills’and the ‘values’.5.12 Chapter V(b) <strong>of</strong> the Report refers to ‘Fundamental lawyers skills asfollows:

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