Nomination of Thurgood Marshall: Hearings...87-2...May 1, July 12, August 8, 17, 20, 24, 1962

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Page 108 - I am taking the liberty of sending a copy of this letter to the other members of your committee.
Page 62 - AIDING THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF LAW No lawyer shall permit his professional services, or his name, to be used in aid of, or to make possible, the unauthorized practice of law by any lay agency, personal or corporate.
Page 57 - Stirring up Litigation, Directly or Through Agents. It is unprofessional for a lawyer to volunteer advice to bring a lawsuit, except in rare cases where ties of blood, relationship or trust make it his duty to do so. Stirring up strife and litigation is not only unprofessional, but it is indictable at common law.
Page 202 - The professional services of a lawyer should not be controlled or exploited by any lay agency, personal or corporate, which intervenes between client and lawyer.
Page 61 - A lawyer may accept employment from any organization, such as an association, club or trade organization, to render legal services in any matter in which the organization, as an entity, is interested, but this employment should not include the rendering of legal services to the members of such an organization in respect to their individual affairs.
Page 161 - The League for Industrial Democracy is a militant educational movement which challenges those who would think and act for a 'new social order based on production for use and not for profit.
Page 61 - He should avoid all relations which direct the performance of his duties by or in the interest of such intermediary. A lawyer's relation to his client should be Personal, and the responsibility should be direct to the client.
Page 202 - Specifically the court held that, under the expanded definition, such activities on the part of NAACP, the Virginia Conference, and the Defense Fund constituted "fomenting and soliciting legal business in which they are not parties and have no pecuniary right or liability, and which they channel to the enrichment of certain lawyers employed by them, at no cost to the litigants and over which the litigants have no control.
Page 105 - ... or law and collection office, or office of any kind for the practice of law, without having first been duly and regularly licensed and admitted to practice law in the courts of record of this state...
Page 93 - The relation of attorney and client is that of master and servant in a limited and dignified sense, and it involves the highest trust and confidence. It cannot be delegated without consent, and it cannot exist between an attorney employed by a corporation to practice law for it, and a client of the corporation, for he would be subject to the directions of the corporation, and not to the directions of the client.

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