When the regulator lacks institutional courage, the individual must therefore exercise personal courage- but without sacrificing their identity or remaining trapped indefinitely in the struggle. Complainants put their lives in the hands of a lawyer, and when they're let down, the legal regulator becomes the focus of their hopes. Legal ethics matter- it is real human people whose lives are at stake.

Cicero said, "The worst kind of injustice is to look for profit from injustice." And across centuries, the same warnings of the ancient repeat: justice erodes the moment power learns it can cloak its self-interest in the language of law. And people still seek access to justice, yet sometime find only injustice in the legal system.