 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1928 - 642 pages
...only the law but the administration of justice. 30. Justifiable and Unjustifiable Litigations. — The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause or...the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong. But otherwise it is his right, and, having accepted retainer, it becomes his duty to insist upon the... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1922 - 606 pages
...not only the law but the administration of justice. 30. Justifiable and Unjustifiable Litigations.— The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause or...the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong. But otherwise it is his right, and, having accepted retainer, it becomes his duty to insist upon the... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1924 - 604 pages
...not only the law but the administration of justice. 30. Justifiable and Unjustifiable Litigations.— The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause or...the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong. But otherwise it is his right, and, having accepted retainer, it becomes his duty to insist upon the... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 738 pages
...only the law but the administration of justice. 30. Justifiable and Unjustifiable Litigations. — The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause or...the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong. But otherwise it is his right, and, having accepted retainer, it becomes his duty to insist upon the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1970 - 732 pages
...attorney. All attorneys are charged to obey American Bar Association Canon Number 30, which states : "The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause...convinced that it is intended merely to harass or injure the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong." The Nixon Bill manifests a distrust of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1970 - 1670 pages
...attorney. All attorneys are charged to obey American Bar Association Canon Number 30, which states : "The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause...convinced that it is intended merely to harass or injure the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong." The Nixon Bill manifests a distrust of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1971 - 658 pages
...maintenance of its supreme importance." Beginning at Canon 30, the obligation becomes more explicit: "The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause...merely to harass or to injure the opposite party. . . His appearance in Court should be deemed equivalent to an assertion on his honor that in his opinion... | |
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The lawyer must decline to conduct a civil cause or to make a defense when convinced that it is intended merely to harass or to injure the opposite party or to work oppression or wrong. 
