Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association, Том 2Seeman Printery., 1900 |
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adopted amendment American Bar Association annual meeting applicant appointed Asheville Assembly Asso attorney BRIDGERS Buncombe Burwell By-laws Carolina Bar Association Chairman charge Charlotte charters CHAS ciation client Code Committee on Admissions Committee on Legal Constitution CRAWFORD BIGGS Criminal Courts desire Durham duty Edenton elected examination Executive Committee F. H. BUSBEE feme covert GALLERT Gatesville gentlemen Governor Greensboro H. A. LONDON Hillsboro HINSDALE honor John Jones Judge Judiciary Committee June 27 Law Reform law school lawyer LEATHERWOOD legal education Legal Ethics Legislation and Law Legislature married women matter Max French Mecklenburg ment Merrimon mittee motion North Carolina Bar opinion Pittsboro prescribed present President question Raleigh recommend resolution Rutherfordton Salisbury seems separate estate session sole and separate standing Committees statute Stedman submit suggest Superior Court Supreme Court Tarboro tion unwritten law W. D. PRUDEN Wake Wilmington Winston
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Страница 91 - When a lawyer is a witness for his client, except as to merely formal matters, such as the attestation or custody of an instrument and the like, he should leave the trial of the case to other counsel. Except when essential to the ends of justice, a lawyer should avoid testifying in court in behalf of his client.
Страница 91 - ... or those having any other grounds of action in order to secure them as clients, or to employ agents or runners for like purposes, or to pay or reward directly or indirectly...
Страница 90 - The lawyer owes entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability, to the end that nothing be taken or be withheld from him.
Страница 87 - ... arising. There are pitfalls and man-traps at every step, and the mere youth at the very outset of his career, needs often the prudence and self-denial, as well as the moral courage, which belong commonly to riper years. High moral principle is his only safe guide; the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction.
Страница 90 - Nothing has been more potential in creating and pandering to popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and in withholding from the profession the full measure of public esteem and confidence which belong 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.
Страница 172 - And the said association is formed to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, and to cherish the spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof.
Страница 87 - There is, perhaps, no profession after that of the sacred ministry, in which a high-toned morality is more imperatively necessary than that of the law.
Страница 92 - ... principles of ethics which justify his appearance before the Courts; but it is unprofessional for a lawyer so engaged to conceal his attorneyship, or to employ secret personal solicitations, or to use means other than those addressed to the reason and understanding to influence action.
Страница 183 - Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a member of the Association for misconduct in his relations to the Association, or in his profession...
Страница 90 - But it is steadfastly to be borne in mind that the great trust of the lawyer is to be performed within and not without the bounds of the law. The office of attorney does not permit, much less does it demand of him for any client, violation of law or any manner of fraud or chicane. He must obey his own conscience and not that of his client.