What are some ways to be a good lawyer?

There are many different kinds of lawyers and they all play different roles. The ethical rules provide a basic list of the required attributes of a lawyer. Those include competence, confidentiality, diligence, loyalty, forthrightness, lack of bias, lack of substance abuse, fairness, upholding peoples' dignity. These things will play out differently for different lawyers because there are so many kinds of lawyers dealing with things that are so very different from others.