@ said:

What's up with all the salt, Bro? Dude was just asking a very reasonable question...

That’s your opinion. I thought the question was nonsensical and I responded in kind. Why would it be unethical to look at your LOR if you have a legal right to the information? That’s why they ask you to waive your rights...

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On the other hand, I've been at a local legal clinic for 6+ months now, working with / for multiple attorneys (in addition to buying coffee for a few public defenders in my area). Not one has given me a lecture on professional legal ethics yet. I wonder if I'm doing it all wrong...

So you gave lawyers coffee and are wondering why they didn’t talk to you about ethics? Ok...

@ said:

Don't reply with that kind of attitude.

Or what?

I stand by the comment. Nothing I said was incorrect. I have seen other people be a lot more disrespectful in these discussions. I thought I was pretty nice actually.

The fact that you are asking this suggests that you don't know much about law school or the lawyering profession. It also suggests that you haven't talked to lawyers or people who have went to law school.

Being "ethical" in law means following the rules exactly as written. There is a list of a bunch of things you can't do. If you do something that isn't on the list, that does not count as unethical. If you go to law school, they will teach you a class about ethics. In this class, they will tell you everything you can't do. Then they will teach you how to go around those rules. Talk to lawyers and they will tell you. My professor (who has a JD) confirmed this. Lawyers do borderline unethical crap every day. One of the biggest falsehoods about the profession is that lawyers are these mythical creatures who are held to some high moral standard. Only in certain ways as required by the rules. Law is a game. It is about winning and billing your clients.

So, to answer your question, no it is not unethical. You are free to look at your LOR if the professor is willing to give it to you. Under federal law, you have a legal right to look at your law school file if you attend the school. I'm pretty sure this is true even if you waive your right during the LSAC process. It mostly means you can't ask to look at it if they don't offer you admission. The main reason to waive the right is so the law school doesn't question the authenticity of the LOR author.