Criminal Bar Association president Adriana Pinnock wants an end to mud-slinging between lawyers about who gets what legal aid work.
For months, some contract lawyers have been railing against reforms that give more cases to salaried personnel at the Public Defence Service (PDS).
Disgruntled lawyers have circulated a court judgment criticising the service and given numerous media interviews slating what they say are problems with it.
In a speech last month, the Legal Services Agency's former chairman accused some criminal lawyers of appalling and unprofessional conduct towards PDS lawyers.
Criminal Bar Association president Adriana Pinnock says the speech stirred up resentment and ill-feeling.
She says the mud-slinging is unseemly and ugly, and must cease.
