Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association, Volume 26State Printers, 1903 - Bar associations |
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... attorney obligates himself to observe . These seven items contain the rules of professional deportment of a high standard , which every attorney is supposed to maintain . What Mr. Blakey proposes is that the entire Code be adopted into ...
... attorney obligates himself to observe . These seven items contain the rules of professional deportment of a high standard , which every attorney is supposed to maintain . What Mr. Blakey proposes is that the entire Code be adopted into ...
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... Attorney at Montgomery , to tender a special train for the use of the members for passage to the Lake and return , and I therefore offer the following resolu- tion : Resolved , That the thanks of the Alabama State Bar Association be and ...
... Attorney at Montgomery , to tender a special train for the use of the members for passage to the Lake and return , and I therefore offer the following resolu- tion : Resolved , That the thanks of the Alabama State Bar Association be and ...
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... attorney as a matter and the other is where a judgment is rendered against him for money which he has collected in his professional capacity , and execution against him has been returned " No property . " In each of those cases the ...
... attorney as a matter and the other is where a judgment is rendered against him for money which he has collected in his professional capacity , and execution against him has been returned " No property . " In each of those cases the ...
Page 65
... Attorney dive into the Digest , and the Defendant's Counsel plunge into the Encyclopedia in response to the Court's in- quiry for an authority , instead of having a ready answer to be announced in a scholarly way . The effect in such ...
... Attorney dive into the Digest , and the Defendant's Counsel plunge into the Encyclopedia in response to the Court's in- quiry for an authority , instead of having a ready answer to be announced in a scholarly way . The effect in such ...
Page 120
... Attorney Gen- eral and Clerk of the Supreme Court . The Attorney General replied making no suggestions but re- ferring the committee to the Supreme Court judges as better prepared to give the practical workings of the statute . He added ...
... Attorney Gen- eral and Clerk of the Supreme Court . The Attorney General replied making no suggestions but re- ferring the committee to the Supreme Court judges as better prepared to give the practical workings of the statute . He added ...
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Page 200 - Go in Supporting a Client's Cause 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 false 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.
Page 238 - Newspaper publications by a lawyer as to pending or anticipated litigation may interfere with a fair trial in the courts and otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice. Generally they are to be condemned. If the extreme circumstances of a particular case justify a statement to the public, it is unprofessional to make it anonymously. An ex parte reference to the facts should not go beyond quotation from the records and papers on file in the court; but even in extreme...
Page 197 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which...
Page 251 - ... interrogatories and the like, the lawyer must be allowed to judge. In such matters no client has a right to demand that his counsel shall be illiberal, or that he do anything therein repugnant to his own sense of honor and propriety.
Page 192 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.
Page 80 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, " We, the People," instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states.
Page 241 - TO CONTROL THE INCIDENTS OF THE TRIAL As to incidental matters pending the trial, not affecting the merits of the cause, or working substantial prejudice to the rights of the client, such as forcing the opposite lawyer to trial when he is under affliction or bereavement; forcing the trial on a particular day to the injury of the opposite lawyer when no harm will result from a trial at a different time; agreeing to an extension of time for signing a bill of exceptions...
Page 201 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 95 - ... fetter and degrade the state governments by subjecting them to the control of Congress, in the exercise of powers heretofore universally conceded to them of the most ordinary and fundamental character ; when in fact it radically changes the whole theory of the relations of the state and Federal Governments to each other and of both these governments to the people...
Page 244 - In determining the amount of the fee, it is proper to consider : (1) the time and labor required...