Some Problems of Legal EthicsLawyers cooperative, 1917 - 8 pages |
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Page 3 - In the judicial forum the client is entitled to the benefit of any and every remedy and defense that is authorized by the law of the land, and he may expect his lawyer to assert every such remedy or defense. But it is...
Page 4 - ... and indubitable." Many cases went to the appellate court, in which the character of the evidence was discussed, sometimes held to be sufficient, sometimes insufficient. The legislature, in its wisdom, decided to make an end of this entire class of controversies and...
Page 3 - S THE law is a science which deals principally with ethical questions, so the ethical relations of its practitioners towards the courts, each other, and the public have always been regarded as of paramount importance. With this object in view, there have been not only many discussions of the broad subject of the lawyer's duties and obligations by those who have thus sought to discharge, in part at least, the duty which each of us owes to...
Page 3 - How Far a Lawyer May Go in Supporting a Client's Cause...