WE STRIVE TO: *Maintain and enhance the prestige, status and dignity of the profession *Regulate the exercise of the profession *Encourage and promote efficiency in and responsibility in relation to the profession *Deal with all matters relating to the interest of the profession and to protect those interests *Uphold the integrity of practitioners *Uphold and improve the standards of professional conduct and qualifications of practitioners *Provide for the effective control of the professional conduct of practitioners *Promote uniform practice and discipline among practitioners *Encourage the study of law *Initiate and promote reforms and improvements in any branch of the law, the administration of justice, the practice of law and in draft legislation *Represent generally the views of the profession *In the interest of the profession in the Republic, co-operate with such other societies or bodies of ...