 | North Carolina Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 218 pages
...miscarriage to which justice is subject, and the uncertainty of predicting results, admonish attorneys to beware of bold and confident assurances to clients, especially where the employment depends upon the assurance, and the case is not plain. 32. Prompt preparation for trial, punctuality... | |
 | Administrative law - 1967 - 468 pages
...practitioner should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits...probable result of pending or contemplated litigation. He should beware of bold and confident assurances to clients, especially where employment may depend... | |
 | Administrative law - 1979 - 692 pages
...practitioner should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable result or pending or contemplated litigation. He should beware of bold and confident assurance to clients,... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1911 - 136 pages
...Cause. A lawyer should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits...employment may depend upon such assurance. Whenever the controvesry will admit of fair adjustment, the client should be advised to avoid or to end the litigation.... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 192 pages
...before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable results of pending or contemplated litigation. The miscarriages...which justice is subject, by reason of surprises and disappointment in evidence and witnesses, and through mistakes of juries and errors of Courts even... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1928 - 188 pages
...before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable results of pending or contemplated litigation. The miscarriages...which justice is subject, by reason of surprises and disappointment in evidence and witnesses, and through mistakes of juries and errors of Courts even... | |
 | New Jersey State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1918 - 156 pages
...Cause. A lawyer should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable results of pending or contemplated litigation. The miscarriages to which justice is subject, by reason... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 700 pages
...fawning, flattery or pretended solicitude for their personal comfort. 3. To THE CUENT tion. He should beware of bold and confident assurances to clients especially where the employment may depend on such assurances. He should bear in mind that seldom are all the law and facts on the side of his... | |
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Advising Upon the Merits of a Client's Cause. A lawyer should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable result of pending or contemplated litigation.... 
