 ... popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense...  Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting - Page 254by California Bar Association - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Carl Frederick Taeusch - Business ethics - 1926 - 392 pages
...claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed...client's innocence or in the justice of his cause. It is impossible, from a careful reading of these canons, to conclude that they are compatible with... | |
 | Iowa - 1926 - 710 pages
...reprehensible. In supporting a client's cause, a lawyer should use his best efforts but only within the law. It is improper for a lawyer to assert in argument...lawyer owes ' ' entire devotion to the interest of his client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost... | |
 | Mississippi State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 232 pages
...; and law suits with clients should be resorted to only to prevent injustice, imposition, or fraud. whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his...in his client's innocence or in the justice of his eai'se. The lawyer owes "entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 554 pages
...dealing with litigants to their own advantage. In these canons to which I have referred it is considered improper for a lawyer to assert in argument his personal...client's innocence, or in the justice of his cause. It is pointed out, that no fear of judicial disfavor should, however, restrain him from the full discharge... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 540 pages
...claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause. A lawyer "owes entire devotion to the interest of his client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense... | |
 | Oklahoma State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1922 - 262 pages
...claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause. "It is improper"—this is the clause I want to call to the attention of this association—"It is improper... | |
 | American essays - 1927 - 878 pages
...drawn in the latter's favor. It is the duty of the jury to decide the case on the evidence as it z 'It is improper for a lawyer to assert in argument...client's innocence or in the justice of his cause. ' — Canons of Ethics adopted by the American Bar Association comes from the mouths of the witnesses... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 880 pages
...with clients should be resorted to only to prevent injustice, imposition or fraud. that it Is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed...assert in argument his personal belief in his client's lnnocence or In the justice of his cause. The lawyer owes "entire devotion to the lnterest of the client,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1917 - 988 pages
...with ciients should be resorted to only to prevent injustice, imposition or fraud. that it ls the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his ciient's cause. 1t is lmproper for a lawyer to assert in argument his personal belief in his ciient's... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1916 - 936 pages
...Canon 15 of Professional Ethics of the American Bar Association be amended by adding after the words, 'to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's case,' the words: " ' The lawyer can do no more in a case he finds to be palpably unjust than to extricate... | |
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