Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster 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... Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting - Page 282by California Bar Association - 1923Full view - About this book
| Law - 1908 - 540 pages
...measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than docs the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Mississippi State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 126 pages
...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...questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawy,et,V, do whatever may enable him to succeed in winniixg,,,his ',client's cause. .. .,,/",.' \:... | |
| Benson Young Landis - Professional ethics - 1927 - 140 pages
...end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law. Professional Codes It is improper for a lawyer to assert in argument...client's innocence or in the justice of his cause. The lawyer owes "entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense... | |
| 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... | |
| Mississippi State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 168 pages
...only to prevent injustice, imposition, or fraud. It is improper for a lawyer to assert in^argument his personal belief in his client's innocence or in the justice of his cause. The lawyer owes "entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense... | |
| Denver Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 152 pages
...full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties, than the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous...in defense of questionable transactions, that it is an attorney's duty to do everything to succeed in his client's cause. An attorney "owes entire devotion... | |
| Oklahoma State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1922 - 262 pages
...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...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... | |
| New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 842 pages
...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...client's innocence or in the justice of his cause. The lawyer owes " entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense... | |
| Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1910 - 602 pages
...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...client's innocence or in the justice of his cause. The lawyer owes "entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense... | |
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